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Different people have different strategies to memorize lines. Some memorize best by reading and re-reading, some by writing them out, others by repeating them over and over. If you need to learn a long passage you should break it down, first into sentences, then into phrases. Learn each phrase then build the next on top of it until you have a sentence. Learn the next sentence the same way. The try to build a paragraph out of the sentences. It is possible to learn quite long speeches quite quickly in this way. Whatever you do, you will need to practise the lines again and again and again. If you work at it and you have the strategy which works best for you, you will succeed.
It is important, when you are playing scenes with dialogue, that you know not only your own lines but those of everybody else on stage at the same time as you are. In this way, you not only know your cues, but you can also react to what is being said. Also, should one of your fellow actors dry up, you can provide a prompt or say their line for them to cover the mistake.
It is also imperative that you should not only know your lines but know why you are saying them. Listen to the director's notes, think about the lines, why those particular words were chosen by the playwright, what exactly your character is trying to convey (or what is he or she hiding) when saying those lines. You need to feel that no other words could express what your character is trying to say. When you have done so, you will have made the lines your own. When you say them on stage they will seem absolutely natural and be completely convincing. They will also be easy to remember, because they will be the first words that come to you. Some people work on the memorization first, then on making them their own, some do it in the reverse order and some do both at the same time. Whichever works for you will be your "process"
What else can I help you with?
What do you need to remember when acting?
To remember your lines, cues, to speak in a loud clear voice l
What is the difference between film acting and stage acting?
Film actors do not have to be over the top or remember lots of lines in a group. Stage actors do.
When an actor makes a mistake in his lines while acting what is that called?
mistaken
What is cue acting?
Cue acting is a way of acting in the Elizabethan theatre (Shakespeare's time) where an actor doesn't receive his lines before the play is actually performed. Instead, someone backstage whispers his lines just before he is to say them. It's in fact an old time version of the modern 'autocue'.
What are lines to practice for acting?
Watch your favorite movies and pick a character. Have somebody else right down the other people's in the scence's lines and have them practice with you.
What do you need to remember when acting?
To remember your lines, cues, to speak in a loud clear voice l
What is the difference between film acting and stage acting?
Film actors do not have to be over the top or remember lots of lines in a group. Stage actors do.
If you draw the lines of action of all of the forces acting on the board and extend the lines what will you get?
You will get a meaningless jumble of lines.
How do you remember latitude lines run from east to west?
If you remember that the rungs of a ladder are like the latitude lines on that ladder. That's how I remember it.
If you draw the lines of action of all forces acting on the board and extend the lines what will you get?
You will get a meaningless jumble of lines.
What will you get if you draw lines of action of all the forces acting on the board annd extend the line?
By extending the lines of action of all the forces acting on the board and finding their point of intersection, you would get the resultant force on the board. This resultant force represents the overall effect of all the individual forces acting on the board.
How Do actors remember their lines?
they practice
When an actor makes a mistake in his lines while acting what is that called?
mistaken
Why is it good to go to a acting school?
Going to acting school gives you a higher chance of getting a job in the business. Acting school helps with expressions and memorizing lines. ;-)
If you draw the lines of action of all the forces acting on the board and extend the lines what will you get?
If you draw the lines of action of all the forces acting on the board and extend them, the point where all the extended lines intersect is the center of mass of the board. This point represents the average position of the mass of the board, and it is an important point for analyzing the board's motion and equilibrium.
What is the difference between interior lines of operation and exterior lines of operation?
Many definitions of exterior and interior lines of operations are given by military writers, but it will be sufficient to say that "Interior lines are those of an army centrally situated acting against divided hostile forces; exterior lines are those adopted by divided armies acting against a centrally placed opponent."
What is the role of a reader in acting?
One had to be able to read the lines in order to learn them.
