{"id":82625,"date":"2017-02-10T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/?p=82625"},"modified":"2020-07-20T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T00:06:19","slug":"david-oyelowo-on-memorizing-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/actor-tips\/david-oyelowo-on-memorizing-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"David Oyelowo on Memorizing Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/David-Oyelowo.jpg\" alt=\"Actor David Oyelowo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/David-Oyelowo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/David-Oyelowo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/David-Oyelowo-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/David-Oyelowo-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/David-Oyelowo-585x390.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">&#8220;The only thing that works is hours and hours of saying them over and over and over again&#8221; &#8211; David Oyelowo<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>British actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/tag\/david-oyelowo\"><strong>David Oyelowo<\/strong><\/a> has appeared on television, in film, and on stage, and is an in-demand actor in part because of his intense devotion to his roles. Earlier this month, Oyelowo took part in a Quora Q&amp;A session in which he explained how stage acting prepared him for film and television roles, but also admitted to the difficulty he faces with memorizing his lines.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his theatrical background &#8212; Oyelowo recently appeared in a production of <em>Othello<\/em> opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/tag\/daniel-craig\"><strong>Daniel Craig<\/strong><\/a> in New York &#8212; he confesses that he has no secret tips to learning an entire play&#8217;s worth of dialogue. He explains, <span id=\"__w2_jPacsdE_answer_story\"><span class=\"rendered_qtext\">&#8220;I wish I did have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyactor.com\/how-to-memorize-lines\/\">a trick to memorize lines<\/a>. I often fantasize about having a photographic memory. Unfortunately for me the only thing that works is hours and hours of saying them over and over and over again.<\/span><\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Oyelowo does credit his theater training for making him a more effective actor on screen, pointing out, &#8220;<span id=\"__w2_NLDfx0T_answer_story\"><span class=\"rendered_qtext\">I think stage is the best possible preparation for being on-camera because if you know what it feels like to say great dialogue to actual people night after night you can make most dialogue feel truthful while being around cameras and the artificial environment of a film set.<\/span><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The only thing that works is hours and hours of saying them over and over and over again&#8221; &#8211; David Oyelowo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":82827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6947,12105,2277],"class_list":["post-82625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actor-tips","tag-david-oyelowo","tag-featured","tag-memorizing-lines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v24.2) - 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