Diane Keaton’s Honest Quotes About Never Getting Married

Diane Keaton She often discussed her decision never to marry despite dating some of Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors in the 1970s.

She said: “Today I was thinking about this. I am 73 years old and I think I am the only one in my generation, and perhaps before, who has been a single woman her whole life.” the people In 2019.

Actress – from He died at the age of 79 years On October 11 – She had multiple high-profile relationships with Hollywood stars early in her career. Keaton was a Musa, director and actor Woody Allen During the few years they spent together as a couple, in addition to dating her godfather and Reds costars Al Pacino and Warren Beattyrespectively.

Keaton became a mother relatively late in life when she adopted Two childrenHis daughter, Dexter, and son, Duke, are in their 50s but have never felt the need to tie the knot.

Keep scrolling to take a look at Keaton’s comments about why she’ll never get married.

The right thing

Keaton made a frank response in 1996 ABC News Interview when asked why she “never married”.

“I guess I never got married because I didn’t want to get married,” Keaton replied. “I did not choose to get married, and it would have been better for the people I was with that we not be married. I did the right thing.”

eccentric

talking to the people In 2019, Keaton suggested that marriage may have never worked out for her because she viewed herself as an outsider.

“I think I’m weird,” she joked. “I don’t know anything, and I haven’t learned. Getting older hasn’t made me any wiser.”

Keaton claimed that there was “something missing in me” and that the pair would need someone to “take care of them”, which she was unable to do.

“I’m an oddball,” she admitted. “I remember one day in high school, this guy came up to me and said, ‘One day you will make a good wife.’ And I thought, ‘I don’t want to be a wife. No.’”

“Seduced by talent”

the First Wives Club The actress responded to the insulting theory that she may have been “sad” about never getting married.

“(I’m not sad) because I think I need more of a motherly side,” she said. the people. “I don’t think it would have been a good idea for me to get married, and I’m really glad I didn’t, and I’m sure they are happy about it too.”

She added: “When I was young, I aspired to be loved by these extraordinary people. I guess I wasn’t supposed to be tempted by talent. When you do the same job, it’s not great. I should have just found a nice human being, a kind of family man.”

Conflicting feelings

talking to YouTube user Kirsty does not In 2019, Keaton examined whether she was being “really honest” when she said she never wanted to “be someone’s wife.”

“I’ve said that and sometimes I think that’s not really true,” she admitted. “I think, in theory, it might have been a really good idea to be married because I think it’s an important and wonderful institution for people to come together and be together and live together. However, I don’t think I had that in me.”

Keaton suggested that it was “taxing” to have “the role her mother had” as a housewife.

“I didn’t want that. I didn’t want to get the role of my mother,” she insisted. “I saw that she had a lot of ambition that she couldn’t achieve because of four kids and a husband in their 50s.”

“A different kind of love”

Keaton stressed in that 2019 interview that “since marriage never happened,” she has developed a “different kind of love” for other people in her life.

“I really love my family, these people are really important to me and my friends,” she added.

The perfect husband

While Keaton often offered thoughtful responses when discussing marriage, she once lightly considered whether a Hollywood star might change her mind.

“Who will (marry me)?” she Joking on The Ellen DeGeneres Show In 2015, before replying: “Wait, Channing Tatum?”

After the host Ellen DeGeneres He broke the bad news that Tatum was married to her at the time JennaKeaton had a sarcastic complaint: “Channing Tatum is already married to someone else…not me?”