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
How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.
To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.
To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.
If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.
I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.
I think a lot of marriages occur because there's peer pressure. There's this whole romantic notion that we've created about weddings.
I go a lot of places in America on public appearances, and I ask people about, what do you do. Many have two and three jobs in order to make a living.
I agree that women need to be part of the work force, of course. They have enormous stuff to contribute, but don't neglect the raising of children.
I'm not so convinced that what we're doing is right. In other words, where both members have to work so hard to scratch out a living. That is tragic.
I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says.
Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
Being in love, and I'm not an expert in this, I've lived it as much as anyone has, but I've not dissected it.