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- Diane Keaton's Final PEOPLE Interview: On Therapy, Never Wanting to Be a Wife and Saying No to Plastic Surgery</p>
<p>Kim HubbardOctober 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM</p>
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<p>Diane Keaton died in California on Saturday, Oct. 11, at age 79</p>
<p>In a May 2019 interview with PEOPLE, the Oscar winner got candid about motherhood, therapy, her love of Instagram and more</p>
<p>About avoiding marriage her whole life, Keaton said at the time: "I don't want to be a wife. No."</p>
<p>Years before Diane Keaton's death at age 79, the Oscar winner caught up with PEOPLE for a candid interview inside her home in Brentwood, Calif. Revisit that conversation below, and stay up to date on all of PEOPLE's coverage of the late icon's legacy here.</p>
<p>She won an Oscar, dated an array of famous men, raised two kids (daughter Dexter, 23, and son Duke, 18), and starred in films at an age when many actresses have been sidelined.</p>
<p>But if you asked Diane Keaton what she'd learned into her 70s, she rolled her eyes. "I don't know anything, and I haven't learned," she insisted in a May 2019 interview with PEOPLE in support of her movie Poms. "Getting older hasn't made me wiser."</p>
<p>Self-deprecation was her shtick at least since 1977's Annie Hall, but it's no act. Still, you can't spend an afternoon with Diane Keaton and not see that underneath all the doubting, she's both tough and wise. "I knew what I wanted in life, and I went after it," she said. "Being a person who always knew simplifies things — it's hard to find your way if you don't."</p>
<p>Below, more Keaton-esque words to live by.</p>
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<p>Diane Keaton in "Poms" (2019)</p>
<p>Friendliness is next to godliness.</p>
<p>"When I was a kid, there was this greeter in Laguna Beach who used to stand on the corner waving to everybody and saying, 'Oh, hi, welcome.' Now I feel like that greeter. I just feel like you have no business being anything but friendly. If anyone comes up to me, wanting to take a picture or something, I always do it, because why wouldn't I? We're all in this world together."</p>
<p>Kindness to animals — and insects — matters too.</p>
<p>"As you get older you're more aware of the living creatures in your surroundings. Birds fly in here quite often, and I make sure the windows are open so we can get them out. Also bugs — I don't want to kill bugs. And I've been a vegetarian for 20 years. I'm a gas-guzzler, I'm a creep in so many ways — I can at least do that."</p>
<p>You don't need marriage to have a fulfilling life.</p>
<p>"Today I was thinking, I'm the only one in my generation of actresses who has been a single woman all her life. I'm really glad I didn't get married. I'm an oddball. I remember in high school, this guy came up to me and said, 'One day you're going to make a good wife.' And I thought, 'I don't want to be a wife. No.'"</p>
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<p>Diane Keaton with Dexter and Duke</p>
<p>You do need love — and some good kissing along the way."When I was young, I was looking to be loved by these extraordinary people [she dated Woody Allen, Warren Beatty and Al Pacino, among others]. I think I should not have been so seduced by talent. When you're both doing the same job, it's not so great. I should have found just a nice human being, kind of a family guy. I have kissed some great guys in films. They have to pretend they like you! I loved kissing Andy Garcia [in 2018's Book Club]. There might be [a Book Club sequel] but maybe Andy will say, 'Can you give me one of the other women to kiss?'"</p>
<p>Being a parent is hard. Being a kid might be harder.</p>
<p>"It isn't easy to be a 50-year-old woman who adopts. I had to learn a lot, and that was good for me — I hope it was good for them. It can't be easy to be adopted by an old mother who's an actress. Everybody's looking at me and not at them. So I don't think that's easy at all. But I love them. They're my life."</p>
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<p>Diane Keaton c. 1982</p>
<p>Aging in Hollywood is hard, but cosmetic surgery isn't a must."I haven't had surgery, and I never felt pressured to. But I had my teeth capped. They were rotten because of the bulimia [I had in my 20s]. That's the best thing about my face — my teeth have gotten better."</p>
<p>Friendship is sustaining, and so is therapy.</p>
<p>"With my women friends, I really like their sense of humor. Also a motherly quality. I miss my mother, and my close friends have that nurturing quality. I loved working with the actresses on 2019's Poms and on Book Club. Candice Bergen is so wry and witty, and Mary Steenburgen is like a mother to us all. When I couldn't get something right, she'd say, 'I'll do it for you, Diane.' What I like about therapy is they can't tell you they don't want to hear you talk anymore! I mean, who else is going to sit there and listen?"</p>
<p>It's never too late to become an Instagram influencer.</p>
<p>"I love Instagram! But how many days can I post pictures of my outfit? That came out of nowhere, just, I think I'll wear this today. It becomes an obsession. You keep checking on how many followers you have. I say, 'Don't do it, Diane! One hundred more followers, are you really going to check it?' Yeah, I am."</p>
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