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Interview with Sir Anthony Hopkins speaking about working with Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright and learning from them at the National Theatre in his early career, Wales, UK; 1981 "He was terrific, I mean Olivier and Joan Plowright, he was marvellous to work with. He taught me something about relaxation, he gave me a trick, secret really, he said you don't need to act, he said learn the lines and do the research and do as much work as you can and then forget it, relax, let the part act you and it did the trick for me and I try to remember that. That is not to overact, not to impose on oneself a false character, of the character, because whether one is playing Hamlet or Othello…or whatever it is, one is that part when one's playing it because one is the instrument. You know the actor is the instrument and that part flows through him" (BBC Wales - PEAA257B - AEWZ326B)