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  • Girls have an unfair advantage over boys: If they can`t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
  • People don`t know my real self, and they`re not about to find out.
  • [Message recorded in January 1985, after he was diagnosed with lung cancer] Now that I`m gone, I tell you: Don`t smoke, whatever you do, just don`t smoke. If I could take back that smoking we wouldn`t be talking about any cancer. I`m convinced of that.
  • [to interviewers] Just call me a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
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  • Always prepared breakfast while wearing a silk kimono.
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  • Audrey Hepburn is the godmother of his daughter Victoria.
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  • Brynner married Doris Kleiner on the set during shooting of `The Magnificent Seven` in 1960.
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  • Died the same day as Orson Welles.
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  • He badly wanted to play the title role in Spartacus (1960) and the role of Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971).
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  • He was an accomplished photographer. He took many photos on the sets of the various projects he worked on over the years.
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  • His paternal grandmother was Mongolian.
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  • 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.
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  • Loved modern appliances.
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  • Son Yul `Rock` Brynner II (b. 23 December 1946).
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