There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.
I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.
Men are allowed to get older and women are not.
There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.