Interviews & Hype: Diane Keaton Tells Why She Never Married

DIANE Keaton has revealed that she regrets not settling down and getting married — and that Al Pacino was the one who got away.

“It’s not the worst tragedy. But I really wish I had bought myself a man!” Keaton told our source after the release of her latest memoir, Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty. “A good man who would be a great father, I really do. I think it’s a better way to go.”

The Oscar-winning actress, who has been romantically linked to stars such as Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Woody Allen, said she never tied the knot because she was “not practical” about it.

“I had some insane idea that I had to be ‘in love.’ Now I see what it really takes: real consideration that you’re a good team together,” she said. The man she most hoped to put a ring on was Pacino, a Godfather co-star who she dated for five years.

 

“But he was even less inclined to be realistic than me. And I was on the cusp of being very old. So that poor guy. I don’t think he was really that interested. And I don’t think a long-term happy marriage would be easy for him.”

Keaton’s new autobiography reveals that the only men in her life now are the 48 photographs hammered to a wall in her house, according to the Daily Mail.

The so-called “wall of men” includes sexy snaps of Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Fess Parker, James Garner, James Dean — and an extra special photo of Sam Shepard, which she looks at every day.

 

“They still give me hope for a house that can never be — a home that exists only in my dreams,” Keaton writes.

One man you won’t find up on the wall is Beatty, a former flame she says she “loved in real time, not reel, and not in photograph.” But she also admitted she only found him attractive from one side. At any other view, “I couldn’t figure out what all the fuss was about.”