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"If your marriage lasts more than six months, you're already in the Guinness Book of World Records," Kline joked Kevin Mazur/Getty and have been married for over 35 years — and the actor credits the success of their relationship to the long distance between them and Hollywood. Speaking with for a story published Thursday, Oct. 24, 77-year-old Kline opened up about how he and Cates, who starred in and keep their marriage fresh after so many years and so much time in the entertainment industry.
"If your marriage lasts more than six months, you're already in the , if you're a Hollywood marriage," Kline joked to the outlet on the red carpet for the premiere of at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Related: According to the Oscar winner, he and Cates don't have a "Hollywood marriage" because they've lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for most of their relationship. Kline also joked that he meant it figuratively, as he and the former actress don't consider themselves celebrities, in the traditional sense of the word.
"That's why you'll see no Botox. These are my lips, what's left of them," Kline joked. Additionally, Cates' support for him over the years is one of the main reasons they've kept their relationship so strong.
"She's got her head on her shoulders, unlike me. I usually have my head on her shoulders, too. She's a great wife, a great mother, great person, and she keeps me honest," he said, before joking: "Except for in interviews.
" The pair met at an audition in 1982 and married in a private N.Y.C ceremony seven years later.
They went on to welcome two children — — raising them in the city. LGI Stock/Corbis/VCG via Getty Related: When their kids reached elementary school age, Kline revealed that Cates had decided to step back from acting and instead focus on her N.Y.
C. clothing boutique. ”We have agreed to alternate so that we’re never working at the same time,” Kline said in 1998.
”Whenever it’s been her slot to work, Phoebe has chosen to stay with the children.” "She loved acting while she was doing it, but she was not driven by it, as I had been," he added. Despite her retirement from acting, Cates, Kline and their kids appeared in Cates's costar Jennifer Jason-Leigh’s in 2001.
Kline once jokingly shared that he had some doubts about their compatibility after they first met, telling in 2002 he worried she was "too happy" for him. ”When I first met Phoebe, I remember thinking, ‘She’s too happy to be with me,’ ” the actor told . “ ‘She’s too enthusiastic about life.
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