Diane Keaton’s Honest Quotes About Never Getting Married
Diane Keaton often discussed her decision never to marry, despite dating some of Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors in the 1970s.
“Today I was thinking about this. I’m 73 and I think I’m the only one in my generation, and maybe earlier, who has been a single woman all her life,” she said. People in 2019.
The actress — who died on October 11 at the age of 79 — had several high-profile relationships with her Hollywood costars early in her career. Keaton was a muse for actor-director Woody Allen during their few years together as a couple, in addition to dating her Godfather And Red costars Al Pacino And Warren Beattyrespectively.
Keaton became a mother relatively late in life when she adopted two children, daughter Dexter and son Duke, in her 50s, but never felt the need to tie the knot.
Keep scrolling to revisit Keaton’s comments about why she never married.
The right thing
Keaton gave a blunt answer 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 didn’t choose to get married and for the people I was with, it was best that we weren’t married. I did the right thing.”
An odd one out
Speak with People in 2019, Keaton suggested that marriage might never have worked for her because she considered herself an outsider.
“I think I’m weird,” she joked. “I know nothing, and I have learned nothing. Growing older has not made me any wiser.”
Keaton argued that there was “something missing in me” and that a husband would need someone to “nourish” him, which she was unable to do.
Diane Keaton in November 2019.
Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix“I’m the odd one out,” she admitted. “I remember one day in high school a man came up to me and said, ‘One day you’re going to be a good woman.’ And I thought, ‘I don’t want to be a wife. No. ”
‘Seduced by talent’
The First Women’s Club actress pushed back against the disparaging theory that she might be “sad” because she never married.
“[I’m not sad] because I think I needed more of a motherly aspect,” she said 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’re happy about it too.”
She added: “When I was young, I wanted to be loved by these extraordinary people. I guess I shouldn’t have been so seduced by talent. If you’re both doing the same job, it’s not so great. I should have just found a nice person, a kind of family man.”
Conflicting feelings
Speak with YouTuber Kjersti Flaa in 2019, Keaton examined whether she was “really honest” when she said she never wanted to be “anyone’s wife.”
“I’ve said that and sometimes I think that’s not really true,” she admitted. “I think in an abstract sense it might have been a very good idea to get married, because I think it’s a really important, wonderful institution for people to come together, stay together and live together. But I don’t think I had it in me.”
Celebrities are mourning the loss of Diane Keaton, who died at the age of 79. People broke the news of her death on Saturday, October 11, confirming that The Godfather star died in California. Further details have yet to be released as her family requests privacy during this difficult time. Bette Midler was one of the […]
Keaton suggested it would have been “taxing” to “have had the role.” [her] mother” as a housewife.
“I didn’t want that. I didn’t want to play the role of my mother,” she insisted. “I saw that she had a lot of ambition that she couldn’t realize because of four children and a husband in the 1950s.”
‘A different kind of love’
Keaton emphasized in that 2019 interview that, “since marriage never really happened,” she has developed “a different kind of love” for other people in her life.
“I really love the family I have… those people are very, very important to me and my friends,” she added.
Ideal husband
While Keaton often gave thoughtful responses when it came to marriage, she once lightheartedly pondered whether a Hollywood hunk could change her mind.
‘Who’s going [marry me]?” she joked further The Ellen Degeneres Show in 2015, before replying, “Wait, oh. Channing Tatum?”
After host Ellen Degeneres delivered the bad news that Tatum was married to at the time Jenna DewanKeaton had a tongue-in-cheek complaint: “Channing Tatum is actually married to someone else… not me?”
