Diane Keaton, often discussed for her decision to remain unmarried despite dating some of Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors in the 1970s, offered a candid look at her choices throughout her career.
“Today I was thinking about this. I’m 73 and I think I’m the only one in my generation, and maybe before, who has been a single woman all her life,” she told *People* in 2019.
The actress, who died at age 79 on October 11, had multiple 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 *Reds* costars Al Pacino and Warren Beatty, respectively.
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.
Keaton offered a blunt response in a 1996 *ABC News* interview when asked why she “never got married.” “I think I never got married because I didn’t want to get married,” she replied. “I didn’t choose to get married and the people that I was with, it was best that we were not married. I did the right thing.”
Speaking to *People* in 2019, Keaton suggested marriage may never have worked for her because she considered herself to be an outsider. “I think that I’m strange,” she quipped. “I don’t know anything, and I haven’t learned. Getting older hasn’t made me wiser.” Keaton argued that there was “something missing in me” and that a husband would need someone who “nurtured” them, which she was not capable of.
While Keaton gave thoughtful responses when discussing marriage, she once light-heartedly pondered whether one Hollywood hunk might change her mind. “Who’s gonna [marry me]?” she joked on *The Ellen Degeneres Show* in 2015, before replying: “Wait, oh. Channing Tatum?” After host Ellen Degeneres broke the bad news that Tatum was married at the time to Jenna Dewan, Keaton had a tongue-in-cheek complaint: “Channing Tatum is actually married to someone else… not me?”
Fuente: https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/diane-keatons-honest-quotes-about-never-marrying/