Improve your memory using these actors' tricks. Remember like an actorSo you say you have a wedding toast to memorize? A twenty-minute speech you have to know by heart? A list of people’s names you absolutely must remember? That's nothing! Imagine delivering the long soliloquies of Shakespeare or the impassioned speeches of Arthur Miller or the razor-sharp dialogue of David Mamet. When it comes to memorization, professional actors can claim bragging rights. How do they do it?
Noice’s first and most surprising discovery is that most actors don’t memorize their lines in the traditional sense at all. They are searching for the intentions of the play’s characters: why they do what they do, and especially, why they say what they say. Another key to actors’ superlative memories: words are often intimately connected to actions onstage. “You’ve got to have these two tracks going simultaneously—‘This is what I say, and this is when and where I move,’” one of the actors told Noice.
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