Marriage Quote by Jamie Lee Curtis

Curtis slips a scalpel under the glossy myth of the celebrity marriage and lifts it just enough to show the bruising underneath. The opening move, "Up to now everything's okay", is deliberately provisional, almost wry: not a victory lap, not a crisis confession, just the honest middle of a long story. That small time stamp ("up to now") rejects the idea that a relationship is something you win once and keep forever; it has to be re-earned in installments.

Calling it "a real marriage" is a pointed rebuke to the fantasy version people project onto famous couples - or onto marriage itself. "Real" here means unphotogenic: "imperfect and very difficult" isn't melodrama, it's boundary-setting. She’s naming difficulty as legitimacy, not as failure. In an industry built on performance, Curtis insists on marriage as the one role you don't get to nail with technique alone.

The key insight lands in the phrase "people evolving somewhat simultaneously". It's a subtle admission that timing is the villain. Partners change anyway; the question is whether those changes can stay in the same orbit. "Somewhat" does heavy lifting, acknowledging mismatch, lag, and asymmetry without turning it into doom.

"I think we've emotionally evolved" ends on a cautious verb, not a triumph: think, not know. It signals work done - therapy, humility, recalibration - and also the awareness that evolution isn't permanent. The intent isn't to romanticize endurance; it's to normalize maintenance as the real romance.