Reese Witherspoon weighed in on her early career mishaps.

During her latest appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Reese, 46, took a trip down memory lane and reminisced about auditioning for De Niro's 1991 thriller film Cape Fear.

"I'm not in that movie because I got so scared when I walked in the room." she began.

"I didn't know who Robert De Niro was, so I was standing outside talking to the receptionist. She was like, 'You know he's the most important actor of our time, right?'”

“I was 14. I'd never seen Goodfellas. I'd never seen The Godfather. So it totally got on my nerves.”

"I thought, 'He's never gonna remember that I bricked that audition,' " she told Kimmel. 

"And he was like, 'I remember you.' I was like, 'Me?' He's like, 'Oh yeah. You're the one who couldn't say the word.' Oh, my God! This is so bad."