James Snyder Quotes

United States, Actor
February 7, 1981

James Randall Snyder (born February 7, 1981) is an American stage, film, and television actor and singer. He graduated from Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento, California and received his with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the USC School of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, where he was a member of the SoCal VoCals, USC's premiere a cappella group.

Also known as Singer

I was doing television and films for a good five years, and then I booked 'Cry-Baby.'

James Snyder
- Good
- Baby
I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

James Snyder
- School
- High
- Player

Eight shows in six days can become very tiring - actually, a grind. It's not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude.

James Snyder
- Work
- Gratitude
- Grind
I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

James Snyder
- Good
- Work
- Guy
It's interesting because when you're in a show for a year, your life really isn't your own for that whole period.

James Snyder
- Life
- Interesting
- Period
Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher.

James Snyder
- Real
- Dad
- Mom
I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.

James Snyder
- School
- High
My aunt Marcia Cope-Hart was in 'Phantom Of the Opera' in San Francisco for quite a few years when I was growing up, so we would go into the city a lot to see her.

James Snyder
- Up
- Growing
- City

I play a bunch of instruments.

James Snyder
I have rarely met a musical I haven't liked.

James Snyder
I did 'Rock of Ages' when it was in both L.A. and Vegas, playing the lead, Drew.

James Snyder
- Rock
- Vegas