A. C. Benson
A. C. Benson

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Abi Morgan
Abi Morgan

I wrote a play for Miu Miu called 'The Moment Is the Present, That's Why It's Called a Gift.' Instead of doing a catwalk show, all the actors wore the clothes and performed a 20-minute play.

Adam Pally
Adam Pally

Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.

Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman

Even the mundane task may have something to teach you - especially if it's a task you haven't performed before.

Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

Adriane Lenox
Adriane Lenox

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

Aesop Rock
Aesop Rock

I've performed in Japan before, as well as many other non-English speaking countries. I find you really just have to be a bit more animated than usual. Call-and-response routines work well, if they are simple. Otherwise, I just dance around like a circus monkey and hope the crowd feels it.

Ajay Mehta
Ajay Mehta

My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.

Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

Chris Lane
Chris Lane

After going to a few Keith Urban concerts, I thought, 'I'd really like to learn how to play guitar.' I studied Keith Urban a lot and how he performed.