Brynner's Quotes

#1. Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," ... can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd ... Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King.

Frank Rich

#2. Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.

Michelle Malkin

#3. Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Yul Brynner

#4. See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

William Shakespeare

#5. We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

E. Stanley Jones

#6. So let it be written. So let it be done.

Yul Brynner

#7. Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

Langston Hughes

#8. Whatever you do, don't smoke.

Yul Brynner

#9. I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

Yul Brynner

#10. To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

Byron Katie

#11. Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

Yul Brynner

#12. I've tried so hard to stop thinking about him.
I've tried so hard to forget his face.
I've tried so hard to get those blue blue blue eyes out of my head but I know him I know him I know him it's been 3 years since I last saw him.
I could never forget Adam.
But he's already forgotten me.

Tahereh Mafi

#13. We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Yul Brynner

#14. When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Yul Brynner

#15. People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.

Yul Brynner

#16. If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of Taoism. I personally prefer the Witter Brynner translation.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

Yul Brynner

#18. The secret to mastery in any field is to forever be a student.

Martin Palmer

#19. I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

Yul Vazquez

#20. The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

Stephen Covey

#21. Whatever you do, don't do it.

Yul Brynner

#22. OK, I love 'The King and I.' I'm a huge Yul Brynner fan. I love the scene where they danced after the big banquet; that's one of my favorite scenes in a movie of all time. It's romantic and sweet and wonderful.

Tina Majorino

#23. One cannot see one's own mistakes in matters where his interest lies.

Dada Bhagwan

#24. I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

Yul Brynner

#25. Yule - Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner - of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

Marianne Moore