About her essay in her husbands book, Healthy Child Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home: My essay in the book is about what happens when you're not as green as your partner, and I am just not! I'm always like, 'Are you sure that's not good for him?'"

They say every woman eventually turns into her own mother. Debatable, but I can certainly think of worse fates.

"I saw Faith Hill right before the holidays in a department store. I literally checked her out. I wanted to know what she was wearing top to bottom, what perfume she was trying on. She made me giddy."

On her character in 'Valentine': "Dorothy was always the really shy girl and is always battling all these demons. She had a family that wasn’t so caring and she was just kind of different than everyone else. Now she’s grown up to be somethingquite different, and very much looks like she belongs, but still feels like the little girl that didn’t belong."

On her parents being Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg: "It is something we talk about a lot. Part of what made my mother so hungry and ambitious was that she didn't have a safety net. That's why I didn't go to them for an agent. I didn't go to them for a manager. And I certainly never said, 'Can you get me a job?'"

"With Steven and my mom being who they are, I tend to think, What could I do that can even compare or make them go 'Wow'?"

When asked what was the best holiday present she ever got growing up: "I got a Cabbage Patch doll from my mom when they were impossible to get. She later told me that she had to buy it off the black market. That was the best!"

Jessica describing why she did not get scared while filming "Valentine" "It's like a love story, you're not in love with the person who you're having a sex scene with, but likewise, you're not really afraid of the person stalking you."

Describin the mask worn by the killer in "Valentine" "I saw it in the daylight and it looked almost funny, sort of, so it wasn't scary at all, but at night it does look scary. It's the audience we need to make scared anyway.That's what counts."

“I will absolutely be quoted as saying [series creator] Shonda Rhimes is an absolute genius because she doesn’t tell anyone anything. That’s actually very generous of her because she doesn’t want to burden us with knowing and not being able to tell you – or telling you!

“It’s so fantastic. It’s funny that there’s so much drama surrounding the show, because you’ve never met a better group of more decent people,” she told Access. “It’s as normal as it gets.”

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