Don't.
I read some actor's blog where he counts the number of lines after he's highlighted his then divides them by the number of days before he is to be off book.
I almost got mad when I read it, it is so wrong-headed.
Actors memorize lines because they don't know how to do text analysis. If you learn what the given circumstances are to you and the writing is good, you will say exactly what needs to be said less from memory than from structure.
Learning to work with the paper in your hand is a good idea. Why rush to get off book? So you can memorize the emotion of your scene along with the lines?
Not for me, amici.
¡viva!
Signore Direttore
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