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

What's the fastest way for an actor to read a script and memorize lines for an audition or a job? In this video, I break down how to memorize lines fast seven different ways. These are the memorization techniques that I use for my own auditions. Sometimes I'll use all of them for one audition, other times I'll pick and choose. But having all seven in my tool belt gives me confidence to know that I have other methods to try if one isn't working. Try these out for yourself the next time you need to memorize lines fast.

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[ActingCareerCenter]

What's your favorite way to memorize lines?

[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 :)

[theoverthinkingreader]

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!

[ericsanduprisacaru]

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

[josephbaker]

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.

[holly]

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

[JadeLeannexo]

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.

[dhiyaredding]

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.

[troymcpherson]

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.

[abc-hgbm]

I love these videos and I thing everyone else does to

[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!

[finallyfreeBMe]

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.

[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.

[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 :)

[rectory]

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

[ifeanyidestinypeter]

Here are my favourite ways to memorize lines:
1. Rehearse with a person
2. Record and Rehearse
3. Add an activity
4. Memorizing my lines before sleep

[oneman]

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.

[JAY.KILBEY]

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.

[Vivitoss]

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.