Courteney Cox: Cool Cox

Q: We'll come back to "Friends," but first I want to talk more about David. When did you first look at him with unusual interest?

A: When we first started doing Scream, I remember thinking, "Oh, he's so cute. I wish he would take those headphones off!" He's really into his Al Green.

Q: So that's what did it for you, that he was ignoring you?

A: That little bit of hard-to-get was good, because I wasn't ready to be in a relationship when I first met him. Plus, I thought he was too young for me and too crazy.

Q: What was it that you finally saw in him?

A: Someone who had the best heat of any person I'd ever met. Somebody who just was pure goodness, Never heard him say a bad word about anybody, to this day. There's nothing manipulative about him. He really has fun and knows how to live.

Q: Is he also the sexiest man you've ever been with?

A: Yeah. He's completely the opposite of anybody I've ever been with. I usually find people who are more guarded, but he's so open. He knows how to pronounce his love. He wasn't like, "I haven't known you long enough, I'll play hard-to-get. I need to think things out." He was more like, "Hey, I love you.'

Q: Did the eight-year difference in your ages matter at all?

A: We got married when I was 34, and three days later I turned 35. So I'm thinking we're really seven years apart, but there arc three months where it's eight years. But it's seven! Let me make that dear; seven years. That's a lot to me. But the only tiling that will bother me is if I start feeling like, wow, I look older than him.

Q: Would you ever consider plastic surgery?

A: It's a real big issue with us because David hates the idea. He's dated older women his whole life--he finds women beautiful as they get older. To be honest with you, I don't see what's wrong with a little--I don't know about a face-lift, because I've never seen a good one---but I never thought there's anything wrong with a little eye thing.

Q: How did David propose?

A: I had no idea he was going to do it. We flew to Panama City Beach, Florida, where my dad and brother live. That night we went to have lobster at my sister-in-law's house. A big barge that was setting fireworks off pulled up, and everybody said, "Let's go down to the beach.'' My whole family was there and David's brother Alexis had a video camera and was filming it. David said, "Wow, look at the fireworks," and I still didn't understand what was going on. Then David dropped to his knee and asked me to marry him in front of my whole family. It was wild. And they all knew he was going to do it because he'd asked my dad for my hand in marriage.

Q: Did you cry?

A: Yeah, I cried. I was in shock. Then I said, "David, you mean I can't smoke?" You see, we had just gone to a hypnotist together to stop smoking and I was so nervous when he proposed that I wanted a cigarette.

Q: How long had you been smoking and how many packs a day?

A: I'd been smoking since I was 13, never over one-and-a-half packs, but for sure one. When I dated Michael [Keaton] he didn't smoke, so I snuck for about four years in that relationship.

Q: Ever get the urge to fire up again?

A: I want to smoke right now. It hurts.

Q: Have you ever smoked dope?

A: I've smoked pot maybe six rimes in my life.

Q: Getting back to you and David, I've heard there's an engraving inside your wedding ring--what does it say?

A: "A deal's a deal."

Q: Why?

A: My maid of honor told me her rather said, "Tell Courteney and David, a deal's a deal," Her parents were married until her mom died, and it was the best, most loving relationship I'd ever seen. So anything coming from that man in regards to marriage really meant something to me. And when I heard what he said, I thought, yeah, that's true. It's a deal. You make a commitment, things change, but you work on it to keep the commitment. A deal's a deal. Let's always make this our priority.

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