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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.