How do actors and actresses memorize a play or movie?

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Is there some special method to remembering an entire play or movie without having to refer to your lines? I can barely remember one paragraph of lines to the tee, let alone hundreds of pages of lines. Thanks!

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Repetition. I can probly roll off over 200 movies word for word from memory because I’ve seen them so many times. Like all the original Star Wars, all Monty Python, a whole bunch of horrors, Fight Club, Jurassic Park, the list goes on and on. Its just all repetition. But generally, actors dont have to memorize massive amounts of lines all at the same time.

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