“I started writing [to] Don while he was away. Then when he returned to New York, he built me a little room of my own in the loft, and told me I could stay. And 20 minutes later we got married! No, actually, it was two months later. It just seemed right. A lot of men had asked me to marry them, but it had never really seemed right before.”
“I don’t know what I’d do without my husband. I’d be dead, emotionally at least if I hadn’t met him. He’s the greatest.”
“The greatest break in my life was when I met Don Gummer, I mean there’s no question in my mind about that.”
“I would be totally crazy without my husband! The uncertainties in the life of an actress- the ups and downs, the trips, the scratches on the ego, the constant threat of selling yourself-is completely overwhelming! I would have never made through all this without him. He is the greatest.”
“It sure isn’t easy being married to an actress. But if you give each other space you also get closeness. And time is still the best thing we can give each other nowadays. Even I need to take a deep breath sometimes, pause. Like a farmer, who doesn’t plant his field for a year. And in these breaks I want my husband to be around me all of the time - In the morning, in the afternoon, in the evenings and during the night.”
“The man that I love is so completely a part of my body… he is related, he’s home, he’s me, he is everything.”
“He’s wonderful, He’s like me, I mean, he’s very private. And he never says anything he doesn’t mean. He’s warm, strong, gentle, funny, kind, understanding, very creative. I couldn’t live with someone who wasn’t creative.”
“I think that a relationship will be successful when it is based on unconditional love. After all these years Don and I still love each other as much as we did in the beginning. The trick is to keep listening to each other. You have to listen to each other’s frustrations, wishes, desires and anticipate and learn from each other.”
“I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.”
“You have to find the same open-mindedness as when you were first engaged: take time, evenings, short holidays and spend them together. As an actor I don’t risk getting into a rut [in my relationship], but we have the opposite risk: a couple also needs security. My husband and I often do short holidays abroad, as lovers. We adore Tuscany.”
“The marriage is the best thing that has happened to me - no, not the marriage - Don.”
“I think we have a good marriage and weirdly, we do seem to agree on most of the big things, like money and the kids and sex, which is what I’m told a lot of people fight about. we seem to be on the same page on those things.”
I know I couldn’t even dream of being a mother and making movies without Don, he’s the linchpin ! I love him and I’m so grateful.”
“Our relationship has a good foundation: our love. I need it so bad; I could not live without love. And we just fit together. We share common interests, politics too. We read a lot, but we accept each other’s opinions, if the other doesn’t like the same. I don’t play the big star at home, sometimes I step back and quit making movies. So we spend a lot of time together and we can go on vacations. He’s very happy about that.”
“We’re kind of the perfect odd couple. Don is a man of few words – I’m the one who keeps up a constant stream of chatter in the house. He listens very patiently and then goes back to his work. He also loves me as I am, eager and overactive, even at this age.”
-Meryl Streep on her marriage to Don Gummer
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