Source: Jim Jerome. "Michael Douglas: Second Time Around." AARPMagazine.org. March & April 2010.
Tim Walker. "He [Michael] tells Esquire that the best advice he ever got in terms of what to put at the top of his list of priorities was from his father, Kirk: “It’s your spouse.”
Source: Tim Walker. "Catherine Zeta Jones proves a good influence on Michael Douglas." Telegraph.co.uk. 3/31/2010.
Michael: "At least in your head, your fire burns as brightly. Let's not kid ourselves. But God bless her that she [Catherine] likes older guys. And some wonderful enhancements have happened in the last few years—Viagra, Cialis—that can make us all feel younger." Source: Jim Jerome. "Michael Douglas: Second Time Around." AARPMagazine.org. March & April 2010.
Catherine: “He [Michael] knows exactly what he wants and what life is about. That impresses me. But Michael can also be a real softy. He sends me flowers and cries when his kids say something particularly pathetic. We didn’t care about the age gap from the beginning on. We relied more on our emotions and feelings. It was like that and it should always be like that.”
Source: "Catherine Zeta-Jones: I don't find young men attractive." Ok.co.uk. 1/08/2010.
Catherine: "I fell in love with Michael the moment I met him and our relationship has just grown stronger and stronger. We are very close. I know there were some cynics when we first got together but we married because of love and that has never waned, not for a minute."
Source: "Michael Douglas - Catherine Zeta-Jones' Ageless Love." ContactMusic.com. 1/13/2010.
Catherine: "Until someone actually tells me he's 25 years older, I don't actually think about it. I guess he's been through the mill a bit if he can put up with me and we're not vying for equal rights in our careers because he already is Michael Douglas. He's spent all his life doing that and he can take a back seat in a way and not feel so crazed about the consciousness of his career. It works very well with the children, him being at home and me working and vice versa."
Source: "Michael Douglas - Catherine Zeta-Jones' Ageless Love." ContactMusic.com. 1/13/2010.
Michael about Catherine: "She turned out to be fantastic, it's like a test to see how good your wife is, but she's been fantastic. But I couldn't get her into the nurse's outfit!"
Source: "'Solitary Man' Michael Douglas Recovers From Knee Surgery." PostChronicle.com. 4/30/2009.
Michael: "Fatherhood the second time around has totally changed my priorities. You're more patient, more relaxed. And now i'm old enough to nurture and protect a good marriage."
Source: Sharon Cotliar. "My Life in Pictures Michael Douglas." People Magazine. 7/06/2009.
Catherine: "For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have their own bathroom!"
Source: Woman's Day. 02/12/2008. pg. 14.
Catherine: In an interview with US magazine Parade due out this Sunday, Zeta-Jones, routinely voted one of the world's sexiest women, relates how Douglas wooed her with the some would say cheesy line, "I want to father your children. Months later, we were dating, and I was already in love with him," she told the magazine."
Source: AFP. "Cheesy chat up line that snagged Catherine Zeta-Jones." Smh.com.au. 7/12/2007.
Michael on marriage to Catherine: "[I've] been fortunate. You learn to respect something of value and nurture it and treat it well."
Source: AP. "Michael Douglas Criticizes Brangelina." SFGate.com. 3/15/2006.
Catherine on their age difference: "It's nothing. He never ever makes me feel inferior or says something like, 'You were just being born when I was learning this." And he's willing to share power. At night "he lets me hold the TV remote until he starts to get tired, then he gives me carte blanche to turn everything off."
Source: Samantha Miller. "Red Hot Mama." People Magazine. 1/20/2003.
