Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden
Eric Braeden is a German film and television actor, known for his roles as Victor Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, as Hans Dietrich in the 1960s TV series The Rat Patrol, Dr. Charles Forbin in Colossus: The Forbin Project, and as John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 film Titanic. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Victor Newman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth3 April 1941
CityBredenbek, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
Fasten your seatbelts because you will go through tough times. Don't say that things are difficult. Stick it out as much as you can.
When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there.
My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?
That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.
There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.
There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.
Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.
The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.
The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.
If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.
America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.