The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.”
“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.”