Here Are 11 Male Celebs Who’ve Been Outspoken About The Reasons Why They’re Child-Free

In 2005, while discussing his role in the comedy film Wedding Crashers, the Academy Award winner revealed that playing a father was an all-new experience for him as a child-free individual, “It was a different kind of part for me because I played many villains and in this movie, I was a father, a good person, the Secretary of the Treasury, which is unusual for me. Also, I don’t have children, but I thought, what would I be like, if I had a beautiful daughter?”

“I do like to work as much as I can because I don’t have children,” the now 81-year-old admitted, “I don’t have hobbies, I don’t do anything else. And I’m glad that I don’t have children. I have two brothers and they have plenty of children, they come to my house and I am always very glad when they leave. I have a wife, I’ve been married for thirty-five years, and I have some cats, but I can open the door and they go out, so it’s quite nice.”

Eight years later, during an interview with The Guardian, when asked if he believed his career would have been as successful if he and his wife of 55 years, Georgianne, had children, the Pulp Fiction actor insisted, “Absolutely not. I’m sure many of the kids I knew as a child would have continued in show business, but they had kids of their own, so they had to do something dependable. I didn’t, so I could get by even in periods of unemployment.”