Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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.
I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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.
He and his then-wife, Virginia Gilmore, were the hosts of the first television talk show: Mr. and Mrs.
He is mentioned in the 1985 Murray Head song One Night In Bangkok.
When he developed lung cancer in the mid-1980s, he left a powerful public service announcement denouncing smoking as the cause. He was broadcast in New York City immediately after his death on October 10, 1985.
His father was Boris Bryner, a Swiss-Mongolion engineer and inventor. He eventually abandoned his family.
He was named after his paternal grandfather, Jules Bryner.
Although it was never confirmed, he is rumoured to have an affair with Judy Garland.
He was an apprentice of the famed acting coach Michael Chekhov, the nephew of Anton Chekhov.
Jean Cocteau: Yul Brynner must be mad to imagine that he could be Yul Brynner.
Yul's parents' names were Boris Bryner and Marousia Blagavidova.
After his lung cancer had progressed to the terminal stage, he taped a public service message urging others to quit smoking. At his request, the message was aired after his death, preceded by the announcement "Ladies and gentlemen, the late Yul Brynner".
In 1967, Yul released the album The Gypsy and I: Yul Brynner Sings Gypsy Songs.
In 1941, he traveled to the US to study with acting teacher Michael Chekhov and toured the country with Chekhov's theatrical troupe.
He often claimed to be a half-Swiss, half-Japanese named Taidje Khan, born on the island of Sakhalin; in reality he was the son of Boris Bryner, a Swiss-Mongolian engineer and inventor, and Marousia Blagovidova, the daughter of a Russian doctor.
According to a new book, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan, he was considered for the role of Vandamn, the senior villain (eventually played by James Mason) in North by Northwest (1959).
He smoked five packs of cigarettes a day during his lifetime.
Yul Brynner: People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.
He was an accomplished photographer. He took many photos on the sets of the various projects he worked on over the years.
He was a recipient of the presitigious Connor Award, given by the brothers of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity based out of Emerson College in Boston.
He was interred at Saint Robert Churchyard at the Monastery of Saint Michael, La Tourraine, France.
In 1950, before he achieved fame, he was the director of a children's puppet show on CBS, Life with Snarky Parker (1950), which lasted barely eight months on the air before cancellation.
He was approximately 5' 10" (1.78 m) tall.
His epitaph reads "Don't smoke."
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