Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

I can read a four-page scene once and have it memorized. It's a skill you learn in school: disposable cramming.

Repeating is harder than anything else.

It is good to preach the same thing again, for that's the way to have it learned

When you learn a thing, try to use it sufficiently often not to forget it!

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

It takes me a while to figure things out. I usually have to repeat a lesson or two - maybe three times!

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

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.

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.

Learn your lines so well that you never have to worry about them.