24 Celebrities Who Never, Ever Got Married And Their Very Good Reasons Why
1.Diane Keaton
She told Katie Couric: "I think the reason I never got married is because I would have to compromise too much. I think I took my cue from my mother there. I wanted to try more adventurous stuff for myself. And also I was afraid of men."
2.Eva Mendes
She told Chelsea Handler via Digital Spy: "I'm not, like, anti-marriage or the institution for other people. I love the idea of a union, that's very beautiful. I just don't think it should be a piece of paper because society tells me to."
"I actually think it's really sexy to be with someone in their 50s or 60s and be, like, 'That's my boyfriend.' But I think husband and wife are very unsexy words."
3.Bill Maher
He told Howard Stern: "I never understood how you could be with the same person day after day, month after month, and year after year. I just don't get that."
4.Leonardo DiCaprio
He told Parade: "The truth is, you can’t predict marriage. You can’t plan it. It’s just going to happen when it happens."
5.Mindy Kaling
She told Good Housekeeping in 2015: "I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now."
6.John Cusack
Elle magazine asked him to say why he's never been married in five words, and he said: "I can do it in seven: 'Society doesn't tell me what to do.'"
7.Shakira
She told 60 Minutes, "To tell you the truth, marriage scares the shit out of me. I don't want him to see me as the wife. I'd rather him see me as his girlfriend."
8.Winona Ryder
She told The Edit via ET: "I'd rather never have been married than been divorced a few times. Not that there’s anything wrong with divorce, but I don't think I could do it if that was a possibility. When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high. But I've been happily with someone for quite a while now."
9.Allison Janney
She told Drew Barrymore via People: "I really am at this time in my life getting to know who I am and what I want. So I'd love to eventually find someone to share my life with, but if it doesn't happen, I think I'll be just fine."
10.Marlon Wayans
He told Essence: “I never got married because I knew my mom needed me. Women sometimes want to battle for your attention, they want to battle for your love, they want to be the one. Me and my mama share the same birthday. I’m not trying to hear you.”
11.Mary Louise Parker
She told the NYT in 2015: "Maybe a psychiatrist would say I’m not married now because I have some sort of father thing. But you know what? That would be the least of my problems.”
12.Charlize Theron
She told Howard Stern via Elle, "I've never wanted to get married. That's never been something that's important to me."
13.Sheryl Crow
She's been engaged three times, and explained to Howard Stern: "Why limit myself?"
14.Sarah Silverman
She tweeted this in 2014:
Why would I want the govt involved in my love life? Ew. It's barbaric.
15.Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova
Enrique told ITV via E Online in 2017: "We've been together for 17 years, so what's the difference? I believe in marriage, but whether we're married or not, it wouldn't make such a big difference."
16.Kylie Minogue
She told Red Magazine via HuffPost: "It’s not something I needed or wanted. My parents never brought me up with the idea of ‘the big marriage.’ I never had it as a goal."
17.Oprah and Stedman
She wrote on Oprah Daily: "He and I agree that had we tied the marital knot, we would not still be together."
"Our relationship works because he created an identity beyond being 'Oprah's man' (he teaches Identity Leadership around the world and has written multiple books on the subject). And because we share all the values that matter (integrity being number one). And because we relish seeing the other fulfill and manifest their destiny and purpose."
18.Jamie Foxx
He told E!: "The 2.5 children, the wood paneling on the station wagon and the cottage, I didn't think that was for me."
19.Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell
Both of them were previously married, but they have never tied the knot.
They told People, "For people like us, the marriage certificate wasn’t going to create anything that otherwise we wouldn’t have."
20.Ricky Gervais
He told Letterman about his relationship with his partner of over 30 years: "I don't think there's any point to us getting married. We don't want any more toasters, we never want our families to meet, that'd be terrible."
21.Chelsea Handler
She told Today, "I don’t know that I’m the marrying kind."
22.Edie Falco
She told the Daily Beast: "I’m sure my parents' divorces did affect me in some way, but also in my life in general I don’t see a lot of marriages that look appealing to me. Because I’m not married I tend to get a lot of eye-rolling conversations with people about their marriages. Why would I want to head there?"
23.David Lee Roth
He told BuzzFeed: "I've lived alone my whole adult life. I've had girlfriends, I've had love affairs. Never longer than a year and a half. I'm the drunk who won the lottery, I'm going to be very difficult to convince of a lot of traditional things. I put off getting married when I found out, oh, you don't really have to."
24.And lastly, Al Pacino
The 83-year-old just had a baby, but he's never been married.
