How good is your memory? Is it shot, like mine? Do you know all your passwords? Can you remember what you did last Tuesday? If someone asked you to recall every item you bought during a recent trip to ...

It’s one of the most common (and cliché) questions an actor gets: “How did you learn all those lines?” Of course, there is more to the intricate craft of acting than committing lines to memory, but ...

Actors who appear in movies and plays have to memorize incredibly long lines. John Simon, a psychology researcher at Wesleyan University, summarizes why actors can memorize such long lines. Simon ...

For some actors, memorization comes easy. For others, it can be the very bane of their existence. Wherever it is you land on that spectrum, memorizing lines is and will remain an essential component ...

That is the question—and it has long plagued public speakers. The answers vary when it comes to giving the perfect speech, ranging from “do” to “don’t” and everything in between. Memorization is key.

Memorizing can be a good idea not just when you're an actor but also when you'll be giving an important brief talk, for example, at a meeting or a wedding toast. But memorizing is appropriate only if ...

Speeches have the power to move people, to change minds, to impact life choices, make people fall in love and view the world differently. John F. Kennedy, Lou Gehrig, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, and ...

The cast of ‘Leave It to Beaver’ | Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images As a child actor in his own situation comedy in 1957, Jerry Mathers ...

Will Reeve, son of the late Superman actor Christopher Reeve, gave his first comments to TMZ about what it was like filming a cameo for James Gunn’s upcoming “Superman.” It’s a full-circle moment as ...