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I write in the booth and memorize in rehearsals.
Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry.
Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.
I'm always trying to memorize lines, whether I understand them or not.
I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
Singing is also like acting, since I memorize my lines, and I sing with emotions, too.
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.
I used to lock myself in my room and memorize scenes from films and reenact them when I was alone.
I used to memorize music when I was real young. Schoolwork, not so much. But music I could remember.
I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.
It's much harder to act poorly written material. It's much harder to memorize poorly written material.
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.
When you don't have an interruption, there's a flow, so it's easier to memorize. Monologues are easier to memorize than dialogue.
I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
As a kid, I was obsessed with Broadway cast recordings, and I would totally mimic and memorize every little choice that these actors made.
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.
If I was going to wrestle, I wanted it to look good. If I was going to do skits, I was not an actress and so I was trying to memorize my lines.
By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.
I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.
I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.
As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.
Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.
One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.
The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.
I made myself memorize how to spell antidisestablishmentarianism in under 3 seconds when I was 6 years old because my sister told me it was the longest word she knew.
If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.
I love boxing because it's similar to dancing, you have to memorize certain moves... and it's not just challenging for the body but you have to use your brain as well.
They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.
I had no interest at all in opera or singing. I saw my fellow students struggling with their scores, laboring to memorize operatic roles, and I thought, 'That's not for me!'
My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.
One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I've never been afraid of getting text down quickly.
I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
The only thing that's required of an actor for an audition is to memorize your sides with confident choices, and then the rest is not up to you. You're either right for a part or you're not.