Mark Russell Quotes

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

I will never stop performing on stage.

I want to be like an Undertaker and be around so when your music hits, people go crazy because of that respect that you've earned over 20, 25 years of going on the ride for them.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

I'm an actress. It's my passion.

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

Acting isn't a side thing - you have to live and breathe it.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

Acting was my first love.

No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

The stage is my first love.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

Stand-up is my baby.

I love acting so much that I don't want to give that up.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.

I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.

Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.