Eric Braeden Quotes

Germany, Actor
April 3, 1941

Eric Braeden (born Hans-Jörg Gudegast; April 3, 1941) is a German-American 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.

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?

Eric Braeden
- Women
- Country
- Heart
The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.

Eric Braeden
- Real
- Challenge

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.

Eric Braeden
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.

Eric Braeden
- Work
- Important
- Mother
In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

Eric Braeden
The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

Eric Braeden
- Respect
- Attitude