Marriage Quote by Rita Rudner

Hollywood glamour runs on decay dates. Rita Rudner’s jab lands because it shrinks the grandest romantic institution into a grocery-item timer: if your relationship survives longer than a carton of milk, congratulations, you’ve beaten the local average. The joke is engineering-grade compression. One domestic, universally legible object punctures an industry built on red carpets, million-dollar weddings, and carefully curated “couple goals” mythology.

Rudner’s intent isn’t to sneer at love so much as to expose the incentives around it. Hollywood sells narrative arcs for a living, and marriages there often get treated like storylines: high concept, intensely marketed, and quick to be rewritten when the ratings dip. The subtext is less “celebrities are bad at commitment” than “celebrity culture is bad at letting commitment be boring.” A durable marriage requires privacy, repetition, and unphotogenic work; the celebrity economy rewards novelty, reinvention, and public consumption. Milk spoils quietly in your fridge. Hollywood relationships spoil loudly, with press releases.

The line also trades on Rudner’s persona: dry, observational, a little dazzled by the absurdity of modern life but not sentimental about it. Coming out of late-20th-century stand-up, it taps a familiar cultural punchline - the whirlwind celebrity divorce - while still feeling sharp because it speaks to a broader truth: when everything is branded, even intimacy becomes a product with an expiration date. The brilliance is how effortless it sounds while indicting an entire machine.