Cameron Diaz's Quotes About Love and Marriage

— -- Cameron Diaz is now a married woman, having tied the knot with Benji Madden at their L.A. home on Monday night.

But did she always see herself going down that path? Not necessarily.

Diaz, 42, has said the following things about love and marriage:

Oct. 2014: "I’m not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff," she told Marie Claire. "I’m living, not thinking what I should or shouldn’t be doing with my life."

April 2014: “A lot of people chase after [monogamy] because they’ve been told, ‘This equals happiness,’" the actress told InStyle magazine. “They chase it, they get it, and then they find out, ‘Why did I think this was going to make me happy? I’m miserable.’”

“I don’t know if anyone is really naturally monogamous,” she continued. “We all have the same instincts as animals. But we live in a society where it’s been ingrained in us to do these things.”

May 2012: "I thought I was going to be married and have two children by the time I was 21. I think I felt I had to model my life after my mother's," Diaz told Redbook magazine. "But then my career was starting to take off and there were still so many things I wanted to do... So that dream for me was shattered early on. After that I never put another time line on anything in my life."

July 2010: "True love finds you. It’s destiny, fate," she told Stylist U.K.. "There is someone out there you are meant to be loved by and you are meant to love, but I think the big misconception in our society is that we’re supposed to meet [the one] when we’re 18 and we’re supposed to get married to them and love them for the rest of our lives. Bulls**t."

May 2010: “The mystique and the romance of a big wedding are lost on me. I don’t think that I could ever do something that extravagant," she told Parade. "I am not much of a planner. I would probably make the phone call twenty minutes before the bus leaves for the chapel and ask if anyone is available to come. That’s probably how my wedding is going to end up."