7 Easy Ways to Memorize Lines for Your Acting Audition | How to Read a Script and Memorize it FAST

[@ActingCareerCenter]

What's your favorite way to memorize lines?

[@ActingCareerCenter]

@Sonali Bhoke great!

[@heliahavvaei3125]

I think record or have someone to help you for your lines is the best but i realy liked that idea to read our lines befor sleep and after wake up

[@Karendonthamove]

Acting Career Center, loved them all, but the last three, did it for me.😀😀😀💙💙💙

[@tankkelly3571]

Wooow this great

[@HistoryHighwithLisaMarrie]

I write down the lines, read before I go to sleep and then put the script under my pillow (I've done the pillow thing since hugh school).

[@ericsanduprisacaru7655]

I love the part when he JUST wakes up, puts on his glasses, and says "PREPARE TO DIE"

[@josephbaker7905]

As an educator, all of this makes perfect sense. Basically, you're using all of the different learning styles (visual, audio, kinesthetic, etc). Very cool to see it in this kind of application.

[@finallyfree2BMe]

Now I know how to study for them college and work exams! Wish someone would have taught me this memory trick in high school

[@LaDiam-jz2jk]

yesssssssss

[@deidrascott3251]

@@finallyfree2BMewhat do you mean by work exams?

[@Vikassinghx]

The best memorizing technique is to ask questions about the script, like why I'm saying that? Why I'm behaving like this? What happened before this? This will help you alot :)

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Great recommendation!

[@Vikassinghx]

@@ActingCareerCenter thanks sir :)

[@ActingCareerCenter]

@@Vikassinghx thanks for sharing!

[@HeritageDrPepper]

Bruh, after all this time I never thought to *marry the two* Augh, you're a genius, thank you!

[@joecook5689]

Si. Good job.

[@theoverthinkingreader2850]

So, here’s the list of the ways to memorize: -Transcribe the lines -Reduce every word to the first letter only(used when you already know the lines fairly well) -Rehearse with another person -Record and Rehearse -Reed through RIGHT before you go to sleep -Read through RIGHT as you wake up -Do an activity while rehearsing Hope this helps!

[@double0pium]

You just got me an A thank you 🙏

[@ashbinfrancis2931]

💖

[@ArunMPEdison]

Thank you, great tips, and lost count of the number of techniques. Almost all of them were new but First Letter Indexing is definitely compact and going to try after during the writing and transcribing.

[@stephenrogers2164]

So helpful. Thank you!

[@codedstar25shotz29]

Thank you

[@troymcpherson5683]

Line learner- best app I’ve ever downloaded, beats getting a recording tape and allows you to rehearse lines while doing an other activity (even with your phone off). Highly recommend.

[@VioletEmerald]

Is this an ad? The one word one on Google Play store, LineLearner that costs $4? It has only 3 stars so I find it hard to believe you love it that much

[@holly4554]

The clips actually killed me!😂 Feel free to come to my funeral!

[@CherrryColaJade]

Just got an audition for the first time in over a year! I feel like your videos for sure helped and keep my passion alive.

[@pixelbart1509]

1.- transcribe lines 2- First letters only 3.- Rehearse with another person 4.-Study before sleeping 5.- Study after waking up 6.- Record and Rehearse 7.- Practice while doing and activity

[@rhewbe]

The little clips of you practicing lines is hilarious 😂😂

[@dhiyaredding4776]

This is great! Thank you! I have also reaped memorization rewards from paralleling the lines after I have read them a couple of times. As soon as I feel like I understand the scene and have an intention or objective to win, then I will say my lines and fumble through it in my own words whilst still keeping my intention throughout. It helps alot with perspective - learned that in acting class.

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Great suggestion. Thanks for sharing!

[@finallyfree2BMe]

I just had to come back 1 week later and let you know I still remember the lines you went over in this video. I didn't study them over the week either. I can't believe I retained this information without studying every single day. I realize that it was only one sentence, but I have trouble remembering what I had for breakfast sometimes! I can't thank you enough for sharing how to do this. I've put it in to action for other things I want to remember and will definitely be using this any time I need to memorize lines. I have a long paragraph im trying to remember now so I'm going to try the thing where you read every night before fall asleep and every day when 1st wake up along with the letter thing.

[@TheEdibleToenail]

Kurt i really appreciate everything you do. Ive almost watched every video youve uploaded and i cant stress enough how much ive learnt from you. Great content and humour makes me never get bored

[@AnonymousXvictoriouS]

You talked about the mnemonic part but I never believed it would work but then you talked about the Oscar winning actress so I decided to give it a shot and I read an entire paragraph from the movie dark knights from script slug (Thanks a lot for the recommendation) just once and I typed down the first letters of each word on notepad and opened the notepad file and it worked, I could remember the entire paragraph! Thanks so much you made my work soooo much easier and you are such a great inspiration and I very much truly hope that you win an Oscar :)

[@Vivitoss15]

i have a video audition to submit so i came to this video to know how to memorize the lines and the one about recording myself as another person, that one really helps. thank you very much kurt. youre awesome.

[@JAY.KILBEYACTOR]

Thanks Kurt some great tips here! My memory isn't the best so I use any help I can get! One of the things that I do that helps me is that once I have my lines to roughly how I intend to deliver them I then read the script and record myself going through my lines. I then play this back to myself on repeat at times when I'm able to. It could be in the car, the bathroom etc. Even if I'm not consciously listening my sub conscious picks it up in the same way that we know the lyrics to a song because we've heard it so many times.

[@RoughPuppets]

yeh I do that too...

[@BlossomAndShineWithPatri]

I loved this!! found this video just on time, for i have to memorize a material. i also want to share that adding different colors to the beginning, middle and end can help you too. everytime an idea changes a new colors show up! loved all your advices!!

[@TheAllthegoodstuff]

Word on the street is that sleeping and dreaming helps to convert short term memory to long term... the technique of before and after sleep is a pearl. Thanks. Much love.

[@AhmadThabet-qw1kc]

Many thanks, hand writing the script while reading it outloud, then recitying it many times; plus reading it just before I sleep and first thing when I get up are my three favoutite tips. Once I learn the script; I recite it to my son, wife or friend outloud from my head, without looking at any papers.

[@oneman5203]

I like writing and repeating the lines too. It gets more of my senses involved. I also learn lines by repetition. I like your techniques too.

[@kitemanmusic]

'learn lines by repetition' I never thought of that! LOL

[@mayshellmoua3282_kit]

😂love ur little practice with the rehearsal with yourself!😂😂😂

[@rectory18]

The second technique initialing each word including punctuation it definitely works.

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Yep, it absolutely does. Thanks for watching!

[@floweryoung8931]

The second technique is new to me, I'm gonna try it. Thank you so much.

[@joecook5689]

What a nice, bright, helpful dude for aspiring actors. Thanks, mate.

[@cylindamcalister3494]

I like them all, but the two I like the most is doing it before I go to sleep and right when I wake up. Thank you so much Kurt for sharing these great was of memorizing script.

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Thanks for sharing!

[@abc-hg4bm]

I love these videos and I thing everyone else does to

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Thank you for watching!

[@aaliyah.7655]

I sure do

[@annalacher]

I definitely do too! 😌😊

[@GLITCHED1]

Damn straight!

[@ericsanduprisacaru7655]

@@ActingCareerCenter ROLL THE OUTRO AND CREDITS!

[@capofallfools]

I tend to use a combo of scoring and using a recorder. Also, I find that memorizing in 20-minute chunks with a 10-minute break in between chunks helps, too, while also making sure to memorize without any inflection at all, so that I don't get trapped in a particular delivery!

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Great recommendations. Agree with all of it!

[@MyClutteredGarage]

This was helpful. I’m not an actor, but I often need to memorize lines for my KZbin channel. Wait, does that make me an actor? 😄

[@keenan544]

This information is so awesome. I love that I've already been using a few of these tips but I haven't thought to write down the lines while saying them out loud. Even seeing you do it, had those lines stuck in my head for a bit!

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Glad it was helpful!

[@askdrmindset]

I completely agree!

[@DebbieBanos]

My favorite memorization technique is to take my sides on a long walk. While I'm walking I'm memorizing. I don't know why but I can get off book really fast that way.

[@joecook5689]

What does get off book mean? And what does taking sides for a walk mean?

[@DebbieBanos]

@@joecook5689 hey there! Getting Off Book just means to memorize your lines as in not having to have your face in your book. When I say taking sides for a walk I just mean memorizing while walking around outside.

[@joecook5689]

@@DebbieBanos thanks, debbie. After I hit send I was like, wait, I think I get what getting off book means. I was right. You confirmed. Thanks again.

[@josiahbildner4684]

Being a visual learner I will draw out my lines. For "To Be or not To Be" I literally draw a number 2 bumble bee boat oar string in a knot 2 bumble bee. It's time consuming but it helps I also do all the other techniques you mentioned.

[@sownpeace]

5 page audition - that is insanity! The voice recorder explanation was very helpful. Genius tips. I would pray last and first, but this soon before / after!

[@Monisha.Michelle]

I’m so glad I found your channel! Thank you for all of your insight.

[@BTCTSLABULL]

Enjoyed this video!!! Good work.

[@shannonellen8643]

This was extremely helpful. I had not heard of the letter method and I tried it during the video. I wrote down the lines and the 1st letters and by the end of the video I actually remembered the line, "A few years ago I was in London for work." I was amazed how the letter thing worked immediately! So awesome! Thank you so much!

[@luisvelez8096]

I always use the first letter of each word technique as well. It's my preferred way of memorizing lines. For whatever reason, the lines stick when I use this technique. It has never failed me. Great video!

[@kimtrachtenberg]

I love ❤️ your vids so funny about reading b4 & after you sleep.. love that!!!

[@rectory18]

Number 2 using the first letter of the word is a gem.

[@tusheenalindsey3142]

I like the “rehearse them with another person” idea and with a recorder. I think the acronyms will really help, doing that first, then progressing to the recorder and then the person. That should be a great plan for easy memorization.

[@nigelsalvador]

Kurt, I am an actor based out of Columbus and recently got two on-camera gigs. Your memorization have been very helpful. Thanks.

[@kimtrachtenberg]

You gave me a great idea about getting a recorder as your reader. Chances are also because most of the time I do use my iPhone to record myself tapes monologues everything and so if I’m doing that I can’t really stop to use another form every record at the same time

[@ActingCareerCenter]

I like using a recorder as a reader for rehearsal purposes but I would not recommend a recorder as your reader for an actual audition.

[@hkass9261]

"Prepare to die", LOL. I love your channel. so helpful. Lots of great information.

[@glrothman]

I learned, and have used successfully, a slight variation on the first-letter technique. I take a separate sheet of paper and write those letters while matching the page formatting of the original. I keep the layout of the line breaks and the location on the page. I think it helps my brain refer back to the original as needed. Thanks for the video! Very helpful.

[@am8838]

Wow I was struggling... these tips really helped... love the writing out each letter... and recording the opposite lines

[@alpagano4125]

Good tips. The first letter one was new. I’ll try it.

[@TLavonLawrence]

Thank god you're alive on this earth. This is AWESOME advice.

[@philemongladstone]

All of the techniques are of great help to me especially the copying of the lines or writing the first letter of each word in the line and the little voice recorder... I am grateful sir. Thank you

[@beatsbymist]

Love your cut scenes. I have learnt so much from you, thank you for everything you do.

[@allcastings4-ec9iz]

Amazing tips thank you. So kind of y sharing this with us!!.

[@evafontaine3440]

This is such great advice and all of these techniques take time and dedication. I’ve used all of them to learn reams of texts in recent years. When I don’t have the time or situation where I can use them, I struggle. I had to work long hours in the lead up to an audition just last week so couldn’t use my usual approach (which sets the foundation) and I had to pull out of the audition because I knew the lines weren’t embedded enough to do the scene justice. Seeing this video has confirmed to me, the importance of those crucial steps. Also getting enough sleep so your memory and focus can be sharp.

[@Artchick1972]

Rewriting my notes for school always helped me. I also did time lines

[@knw-seeker6836]

Thanks for the great advice i´m not an actor but a psychology student This could be and should be used in different areas of learning

[@Go4DonDON]

I learned the one letter tech too! It takes practice but what ends up happening is that you beg to associate the image of letters with the lines. It does work

[@HaileeStein_3000]

I'm playing the main person in my school and this help a lot! Thanks

[@Roi_de_Rome1811]

same story lad a bit worried and nervous but I am sure everything will work out

[@tusheenalindsey3142]

I always liked the Enigo Montoya line, I used to play with my kids using that line… when we’d play sword fights, minus the “prepare to… “ line: although I think I’ve actually said the whole line at times, but I am a Lover of life…. So, the enigo Montoya line still one of my movie favorites, but adjusted to say… prepare to live….😅. Excellent video! So helpful! I love learning from experts. I can’t wait to tryout the techniques. Thanks!!🎉

[@lindahodge-mcloud7911]

I do several of the memorization tecinques that you do. My favorite is writing the lines down, and reading them over and over again. My second favorite is recording the lines into my phone, and listening to it as I walk, drive or any other activity. Thank you for sharing all of these awesome tips.

[@darryllewis3142]

This is the best approach I've seen yet. Very helpful!

[@taylorlee5103]

These tips on memorizing lines worked wonders for me. I was shocked on how fast I was able to learn lines and retain them. The first letter only method was a tremendous help. Thanks.

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Glad it was helpful!

[@josuereyes1936]

So helpful!! thank you

[@carlosmontenegro3999]

Thanks!

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Glad it was helpful! Appreciate the Super Thanks!!

[@sleepykitty1745]

Have a big audition on Wednesday and today is Saturday. I still have to do university work and regular work until then, so I don't have that much time. I don't have to know it word by word exactly. I hope I can do it. I will just treat it like a big monologue and practice it in one piece. I think it's better than chopping it up.

[@tawannadavis9635]

Thank you so much this was very helpful

[@gregoryrea7071]

Tape recorder is a great plan

[@ralphnyemah814]

I love the letters technique.

[@nompumelelodimah8399]

Wow, I really liked this one. The most technic I liked is to use the first alphabet of every word and the last one, of including the activity while saying your lines. And it's true when u can do tht both at the same time... Definitely you've got it. Thank you.

[@ingridhubert3649]

Hello, I use reading out loud repetitively for 7 times. After breakdown, then write it out each line several times until I use STRAND method down to first letter, thenprace Strand until lines feel authentic. The Read before I sleep then upon Awakening. Say lines in different ranges,pitch, using various voices. I will be getting mini tape recorder which is a great idea. I'll let you know when I do and implement into Memorization methods. Ty for your advice. Have a Stellar day.🙂

[@rothiswell]

Great tips... thanks so much for sharing the knowledge!

[@catherinemagee-l3x]

I find doing the activity the best one...I DONT KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I HAD THOUGHT I HAD THEM DOWN BUT THE ACTIVITY PROVED ME WRONG EVERY TIME. Sometimes i will relate something to my own family or someone else's to remember a line. Example the line is 'You look like your Mother's side of the family' well if in reality you or someone else had someone with a drinking problem in the family on the mothers side than u will remember the line every time. And I do a similar thing with the letters in the line sometimes. Like if the line is ' as was in yours' ...The three s's in the words helps me to remember it for some reason.

[@drsadie]

First 2 and last one. I'm not an actor. I am needing to Memorize lines for a few marketing videos I need to do. I really appreciate this video. Just with the first few tips I was able to get over my hesitancy ❤

[@kylewagner2004]

This was helpful and hilarious😂

[@AlfredEmmanuel-lt2h]

I love this video ❤️

[@ninadbhatkar2127]

Getting five pages of dialogues to be delivered the next day is quite something. It's no small achievement to have done that. I've heard stories of the Hindi Film Industry (known in the West as 'Bollywood') when actors used to get their dialogues when they arrived at the set. In some cases, the dialogues were written while in the midst of shoot! Those were though days when Bollywood was supposedly disorganized, but ironically that was an era when the great movies were made, unlike now, when Morality has been replaced by Fitness. You know the rest... Thanks for this video. Your tips are really awesome, Kurt Sir. - Ninad from Mumbai, India.

[@sylviepotvin9436]

A Meisner exercise had us separating nails and other small objects from a toolbox. Not noisy and very efficient. Thank you. All of these are good. I have been going from one to the other, or using many for the lasr 40 years. As I coach actors (here in Montreal) I check and see if they are auditive, visual or kinetic. That helps me adapt the memorisation technique to the actor. Your video is very efficient. Thanks again,

[@dinatinnan]

The second? That did just blew my mind like, I have never thought about that

[@AaronRaglandTV]

That is a pretty good one to use by creating acronyms. I primarily just stay on my feet and recite lines aloud since I'm mainly a kinesthetic and auditory learner. How long have you been acting?

[@AnyDayNow360]

Hi Kurt. (*Spec) Screenwriter here, and I'm considering acting classes to be a better writer (might audition for some local roles just for the experience & fun of it!). Your channel was the first that popped up when I wondered how in the world do people remember all the lines 😂 Subbed! Love your presentation and enjoyed this lesson. Happy New Year and many blessings to you, that doors open for you to continue prospering. 🎉😁🤙🏽

[@EdmondLChapman]

I literally just did a virtual audition two 2hrs ago. They liked it, but if i had seen this video, i probably could've done even better.

[@Eklectic_Afro]

Thank you I have to major roles with a tone of lines. This is all helpful. I will do this all!

[@petersjj]

My high school drama teacher taught me the first letter technique. I still use it to this day!

[@WillRafeh]

The activity is so so so important, it’s a whole different game . Great stuff

[@gamefan8552]

I have always thought the only way to memorize lines was repetition, so many times that you know it by heart, however having other methods helps to see what works best for each person. I am amazed some leading actors say they prefer not to rehearse (or working with directors who do not think rehearsal is needed !). It seems you need to have a good memory besides know how to express your feeling in a credible way on cue to become a good actor.

[@valisamintlover]

Same lol!

[@algenisperezsoto2991]

I discovered your channel this morning and I love it. I’ve watched like 20 videos already.

[@williamsmith-bf2vv]

tape recorder is my best tool.

[@avasarahc5]

I think a combination of all those techniques is good because it helps the mind stay motivated for the script

[@askdrmindset]

My friend just place me in her film, and I needed your words of experience! And thanks to you Kurt I'm ready to go and "Break-a-______nope....I won't speak that into existence. I'm ready to Kick-a-Leg up!

[@askdrmindset]

Yesssss

[@laraira9907]

Every technique are surely helpful...but my favorite is reduce every word to the first letter only. Writing down something does really help me to remember or memorize that thing. But I will surely ask the director or the writer why should I need to say those lines that given to me, what are the scenarios so I can also get ready the emotions I needed to add for the spice. Thank you Mr. Kurt Yue for this wonderful video!

[@hackingpalabrita]

Really appreciated!!

[@reelectravious8185]

Hes my best mentor.he tax his tym to simplify and to mak sho no stones left unturned and that all parts of the body from the toes to the thinnest hair understood his expressed points.

[@EGailMustang97]

Great seeing you on the Will Trent show. Hope to work on that one someday.

[@stuartyasunaga490]

I like the technique of writing down the first letter of each word... thanks Kurt!

[@TerryLee788]

Great tips, I like the idea of writing down the first letter of every word....I'm gonna try this.

[@M7ofATC]

With the recorder technique, another way that may work is to leave a moment of space for you to recite your lines if you can play out the convo in your head. Then it may flow a little more naturally without having to pause and unpause the recorder.

[@newsladyproductionstv1058]

Love these tips...some of them I was already doing! I like the doing an activity after you've internalized the lines.

[@gamingglo0opia703]

I have like a 9 page lines to memorize and i'm only grade 7. This actually helped me a lot! Thank you man!

[@ellspressions1002]

The recorder tip is sooooo helpful. Thank you. And the first letter one is interesting. My friend had me do the first word of every line. So for example, line one starts with "How" and, second line starts with, "Victoria!" And so on. So when each line starts differently, knowing the first word triggers my memory for that line. But the letter by letter one is an amazing step. Thanks 🥹 I'm booking back to back jobs as I have a big audition coming up so I needed to really gather some memorization tips

[@johnnyjardine6727]

Kurt, Thanks for the GREAT ideas. I know they will definitely help ,me. I have an audition tomorrow and will get the script this evening.

[@boiyuta573]

PLEASE ADOPT ME YOUR SO FUNNY AND SUCH A GOOD ACTOR! Your defiantly my favorite teacher I've already started taking lessons and I'm very serious about my career even though I'm still 16!

[@positivewavestshirts]

I record scene partner sides myself on voice memo pausing for my sides saying them in my head. Then I use this to rehearse. Thanks for all the helpful hints 🌻🎬

[@satvindergill77]

Amazing techniques❤thanks buddy

[@carolereal4755]

These are great! I also like to sing the lines like (bad) opera...it really helps!

[@cheskamarie8248]

The record and rehears method is Genius lol I never thought about that ! Going to try that ! Thank you!!!!

[@ActingCareerCenter]

Glad it was helpful!

[@victordramsey]

FRICKIN AMAZING!! Yue are THE MAN!

[@AnonymousXvictoriouS]

Lol