Max Schneider Quotes

I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.

I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.

I was Danny Zuko in 'Grease,' and I was in the musical 'Sweet Charity' and then in the musical 'On the Twentieth Century.' They were great. I mean, singing isn't really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it.

My senior year, I got to play Maureen in 'Rent,' and I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life.

I did a lot of theater as a young actor in my early twenties, and my first few records really came from writing songs through the rehearsal processes.

My first audition ever was for 'Bye Bye Birdie' in fifth grade.

I did my first play when I was 7.

My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

I started training for musicals since I was a boy.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting.

I love 'Into The Woods.' I auditioned for a couple of productions since being in it at school but haven't been successful.

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

I did my first musical in 4th grade as Huck Finn. By 11th grade, I was starring in 'Godspell' and 'Pippin' and pretending to be Che in 'Evita' in my bedroom. Singing has always been a huge part of me.