It is about the connection between the inner self and the outer performer, written bluntly and honestly, and with great insight. Not since Simon Callow's "Being an Actor" . . . has a book managed to be both personal and universal in its approach to the actor's art.

—Stage Directions

Acting=Life is the synthesis of over a decade of teaching acting in Los Angeles, largely but by no means exclusively to HIV+ students. Kearns proposes that, to succeed as actors and as people, we need to be honest and accepting of ourselves. This is an acting book that helps actors to learn acceptance of things that cannot be changed, to change the things that can be changed, and how to incorporate both into acting that is visceral and honest.