Andrew Lawrence Quotes

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.

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

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.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

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

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

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.

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.

If I know I have to memorize lines, I'm really gonna try to memorize lines. It's hard for me sometimes, because somebody wrote these words and you're trying really hard to get them the way they said it.

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.

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

I can't learn lines comfortably unless I have it done out loud with someone else.

I'm terrible at learning lines. I'm good at learning lines when I don't have to be word-perfect.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the language.

I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at them too much, and it makes me feel unprepared, so I always learn my lines without fail.

I learn my lines in a few different ways. A lot of my dialogue sticks with me in a general sort of way when I read the entire script for the first or second time. Then, when I get the shooting schedule, I have a better idea of what scenes are shooting when. I then will focus on those that are coming up first.

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!

I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.