Mary Steenburgen is getting candid about her first impression of her husband Ted Danson and revealing the cringe phrase he sometimes says after sex. “I admired him so much as an actor, but I didn’t personally know him,

It’s pretty thrilling to go through life with Ted Danson,” she tells PEOPLE of her husband, whom she married in 1995

After their marriage, they co-starred in the 1996 miniseries Gulliver's Travels, with Danson as Dr. Lemuel Gulliver and Steenburgen as his wife Mary. The couple then appeared together in the 2004 romantic comedy It Must Be Love, playing a married couple rediscovering their love during a snowstorm.

Before he played the charismatic retired professor-turned-private-investigator in the Pacific View Retirement Community, Danson was acclaimed for his roles as Sam Malone in Cheers, Arthur Frobisher in Damages, and afterlife “architect” Michael in The Good Place.