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.
“During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.”
“If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.”