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Bogie sat on the floor, and the young actors, sitting cross-legged on the floor, gathered around him. "Keep working. Never be 'available,'" he told them. This was advice he had been given long ago, and he quoted it often. "Keep playing in theater or TV, anywhere, as often as you can. Eventually, if you're any good, somebody will see you. Of course the best way to get into the picture business is to go on the stage first."....

...Dad asked Dennis Hopper why he wanted to be an actor.
"It's a lot of things," Hopper said. "To do something in life, to be somebody.
"But why acting?" my father asked. "Why not farming? Or something else?"
"I'm just best suited for acting," Hopper said. "I want, I don't know, I just have the urge to be better than -""
"Yes, all right, go on," my father said.
"To be better than the other guy," Hopper said.
"To get out of the millions?"
"Yes," Hopper said, "that's it."
My father smiled. "You're okay kid"...

"Enjoy the applause," he told the actors. "It's wonderful. It has nothing to do with vanity. It's the satisfaction, like telling a joke and having everybody laugh.
And he told them, "Don't go to parties to meet people."