I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.