Top 50 Memorize Quotes

Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn’t have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn’t write it down on paper. He doesn’t freestyle onto the track, it’s all thought out.

There’s a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they’re saying and how they say it.

You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature.

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.

I think it’s still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you’re supposed to ‘be’ this person, you know? So then its like, if I’m really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there’s just one line I’m supposed to say? It doesn’t feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making a movie. It was a lot of studying, you know. I wasn’t a perfect Hebrew reader, and also, they say when you’re reading your Torah portion, you’re not supposed to memorize it. It turned out very tricky.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn’t able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

As a kid, I was obsessed with Broadway cast recordings, and I would totally mimic and memorize every little choice that these actors made.

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.

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.

I’m a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn’t study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

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.

The great thing with comedy is that I don’t memorize ahead of time like I did on ‘Breaking Bad.’ With ‘Breaking Bad,’ I wanted to know those words inside and out, really have my lines down so I could say them verbatim. But with comedy, you keep it a lot more loose.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I’ll memorize it. I don’t even practice the acting. I’ll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.

I was on ‘SVU’ for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don’t do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.

In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

I’ve always been one to want to memorize everything and just be confident that I know all of the lines, but that changed. After college, I realized it’s not as much about being off-book as it is about completely understanding the character and, more so, getting into the mind of your character.

I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play – ‘Othello,’ ‘Julius Caesar,’ ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Hamlet’ – and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Singing is also like acting, since I memorize my lines, and I sing with emotions, too.

Modeling is great because I don’t have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging – which is a good thing!

I don’t write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that’s going to happen. There’s an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

I didn’t know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It’s harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I’ll never quit working in the theater – until I can’t memorize two lines back to back.

In theater, you get to rehearse several weeks, you memorize everything, and by the time you open, you know what the play is. In film, it’s almost the opposite. You do your work on your own and maybe have a couple of minutes to rehearse. When the camera rolls, you generally don’t know what’s going to happen.

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.

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was goofing off and I would memorize every line in every movie that I saw. And at recess that’s what I would do, I would talk to my friends and recite movies.

When you don’t have an interruption, there’s a flow, so it’s easier to memorize. Monologues are easier to memorize than dialogue.

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.

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.

To get on a show where you’re acting day in and day out for many, many hours – 15-16 hours sometimes – it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don’t have time to fret about your choices afterward.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

I’ve never understood cheating, probably because I never cared much about my grades. I instinctively knew that the grades didn’t measure anything meaningful – usually just my ability to quickly memorize information I’d just as quickly forget.

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.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

When you’re on TV, you’re looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it’s on TV, I’ve already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.

The single thing I’ve found it valuable to memorize is poetry.

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 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’m always trying to memorize lines, whether I understand them or not.

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.

I write in the booth and memorize in rehearsals.

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.

It’s funny because, if you’re not an actor, people always tend to say, ‘How do you memorize all those lines? Is that really hard?’ I’m always like, ‘That’s just a small part of it. I have to seek my craft and my emotions’ – you know, all this gross, actor-y stuff.