Become your character.

Stanislavski taught actors that the more they knew about the backgrounds of their characters -- how they would dress, what they would eat, how they grew up, etc. -- the more fully realized the characterization would be. If portraying a historical character, this meant researching that person's life in depth, including speech and movement patterns if recordings or videos were available. To portray fictitious characters, or those who existed in unfamiliar places or times, research into historical or foreign culture was necessary. Characters with special circumstances, such as blindness, disease, etc., required special research into how those things would manifest themselves in the character.

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