Robert Brown
Robert Brown
Actor who is known for his appearances as the character M in the James Bond film franchise. He began his tenure as the character in the 1983 installment Octopussy. He, however, had first appeared as the character Admiral Hargreaves in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me.
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth23 July 1921
Actually, if you ask my really close friends, they would say that 'Honeymoon' is more me than anything else I've written.
constantly left love notes performer stuff supposed work
I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly interacting with my own work. I always get to find these little secrets that I left for myself, little notes - I find them all over the scores.
deny good happen people
I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.
audience behind crucial love performer sitting
Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.
anyone arranging assumed conducting love scratch time
I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.
goes religious terms
In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.
I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different.
wall choices hitting
It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.
characters comedy extreme feeling feels people possibly respond response
Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.
dig expose period scary sort
It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.
kinds music skin underneath
I try to get underneath the skin of all kinds of music, and I never know what's going to inspire me and what makes me crazy.
needing utterly yearns
As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.
The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.
life specific
I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.