There were a coupla times when I had had it. And when I`m pushed to the limit, I scream.

I didn`t work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it.

I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there.

One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef.

Women loved that part `cause K.C. was just sassy.

By the time May rolls around, I`m probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say `Hey, there`s this role, are you interested?` I`d be there in a flash.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it`s not fair to remove him from his whole life.

I opened an account and a relationship.

We would love to have other children. It hasn`t happened. We haven`t been lucky enough.

I`m Catholic, he`s Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.

That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband.

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

We had a murder taking place at a foam party...which once again made me feel so old...So often I`m like, `What the hell`s that?`

"I doubt it will be any kind of an intimate relationship. We always will have some closeness, but I think we have just a marriage of the minds, the two of us, and he`s great to work with (William Petersen). A bit of yin and yang in that relationship, for sure." - asked if Catherine`s relationship with Gil Grissom might ever turn romantic.

About Madonna: "Life will always be good as long as Madonna is around. I don`t think of her as a guilty pleasure anymore - she`s an outright pleasure" (In Style magazine, Sept/2006).