I'm the worst speller on the planet. I'm so glad for spellcheck on my phone.

I'm afraid of flying.

There was a courtroom scene where my son is convicted of killing Kevin Spacey's character. I find the bloody T-shirt and realize my husband did it. I get up the courage to take the shirt and send it to the police as evidence. I go out of the house for the first time. There was all this stuff I had to do that became quite truncated, because they slimmed down the movie. I understand the American Beauty is brilliant without all that stuff, but for me, personally, it was hard to see all that go.

I like people trying to do two things at once.

Don’t ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing - everyone needs somebody to help them along when they’re first starting out.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.