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
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
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 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.