I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, 'Would you please read a book?' She was worried where I was going in my life.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

It's fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline and makes the final discovery and catches the bad guy.

Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ever the same.

I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

I love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.

Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.