- You can tell a joke, can't you?
- No.
- Pretend you're Don Rickles or some-fucking-body and tell a joke, all right?
6 seconds sound clip from the Reservoir Dogs (1992) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:07:24.232 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Because if you ain't a great actor, you're a bad actor, and bad acting is bullshit in this job.
- That's an amusing anecdote about a drug deal.
- What?
- Something funny that happened to you while you were doing a fuckin' job, man.
- Damn. I gotta memorize all this? There's over four fuckin' pages of this shit here!
- You can tell a joke, can't you?
- No.
- Pretend you're Don Rickles or some-fucking-body and tell a joke, all right?
- Now the things you gotta remember are the details. It's the details that sell your story.
- You gotta know if they got paper towels or a blower to dry your hands with.
- You gotta know if the stalls ain't got no doors or not, man.
[...]