When Politti graduated from the School of Dramatic Arts, he joined the full-time cast at the university and later, the casts of other independent theater groups. "In Mendoza, professional theater as we know it did not exist. The university paid me a salary but it was not a living wage. So I made ends meet doing office work." In 1955, when Galina Tomalcheva retired from the faculty of the School of Dramatic Arts, Politti stepped into a paid position.

"I started out earning 600 pesos a month. That money bought me coffee, cigarettes, movie tickets…For a long time, I lived with very little because I was used to how I had grown up – my old man was a blue collar worker. Something special happened to me in Mendoza: the critics and the public liked me. On stage, I was the actor – the one who never failed and had all the most important roles."

Excerpt from "Luis Politti: cadencias y otros cielos,"
Fabián Stolovitzky, Ediciones Corregidor, Buenos Aires, 1995