Yul Brynner Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Marianne Moore

#6. I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Lev Grossman

#7. 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

#8. God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

Hannah Hurnard

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

Yul Brynner

#10. The inscription in your wedding band says 'forever,' Callie. And it means forever. I'll love you until I close my eyes for the last time. And even afterward, I'll love you.

Diana Palmer

#11. I want" - The beginning and end of it all.

Namrata

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

Yul Brynner

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

Yul Brynner

#14. 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

#15. You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it's all you know how to do.

Henry Rollins

#16. I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that,

Elizabeth Holmes

#17. I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.

Thalia

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

Yul Brynner

#19. 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

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

Yul Brynner

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

Yul Brynner

#22. One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.
- Memory

W.B.Yeats

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

Yul Brynner

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

Yul Brynner