Marriage Quote by Teri Garr

A masterclass in celebrity deadpan, this line snaps shut the whole tabloid machine with one perfectly timed smile. Teri Garr takes the premise of the question - that a talk-show host’s “proposal” is both plausible and publicly negotiable - and treats it like a matter-of-fact scheduling detail. The humor lives in the mismatch: the media wants romance-as-content, Garr offers bureaucracy-as-punchline.

“For obvious reasons” is the knife. It pretends clarity while withholding the story, which is exactly what the audience thinks it’s entitled to. Garr grants the interviewer the satisfaction of a tidy narrative beat (she said no) but denies the payoff (why, exactly?). In that gap, she reasserts control. The “obvious” could mean he’s married, it was a bit, she wasn’t interested, or she’s mocking the very notion that women in Hollywood are supposed to treat any male attention as destiny. The vagueness lets the listener project their preferred scandal, then feel slightly foolish for trying.

“...but thanks for asking” adds a layer of performative politeness that reads like satire of press etiquette: the ritual where invasive questions get packaged as friendly curiosity. Garr’s tone - breezy, crisp, unbothered - signals an actress fluent in timing and persona. She plays along just enough to keep the room laughing, then quietly flips the power dynamic. The subtext is blunt: my private life isn’t a public writers’ room, and if you insist on making it one, I’ll punch up the joke and keep the rights.