“Pretend that you’re not. Try to act as though everything’s normal. And of course you do walk a little slower, but that’s because you’re being so careful you don’t want anyone to know you’re drunk. It’s almost like you back off from it and try to do things even…more…carefully.”
Jessica Walter (matriarch Lucille Bluth in “Arrested Development”) on the key to playing a boozy character. Source: Entertainment Weekly