Quotes by Eric Braeden

About Eric Braeden:

Eric Braeden is a German-American film and television actor, best 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. Braeden won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1998 for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the role of Victor Newman.
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The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

Eric Braeden

America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

Eric Braeden

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 h...

Eric Braeden

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.

Eric Braeden

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.

Eric Braeden

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

Eric Braeden

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

Eric Braeden

The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.

Eric Braeden

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

Eric Braeden

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

Eric Braeden

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

Eric Braeden

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

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.

Eric Braeden

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

Eric Braeden

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

Eric Braeden

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Eric Braeden

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.

Eric Braeden

In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

Eric Braeden

How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.

Eric Braeden

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

Author Bio

  • NameEric Braeden
  • DescriptionGerman actor
  • BornApril 3, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Germany
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsGrand Merit Cross Of The Order Of Merit Of The Federal Republic Of Germany