I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

Yes, creative people are more prone to addiction or addictive behavior. But, equally as prone is your mailman, your mother, your brother, your friend, the guy who does your banking. It's everywhere. The thing that happens in the press sometimes is Whitney Houston. She was just an addict. Just like your uncle Steve.

I want to play a Disney villainess so badly.

I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run.

Right now one in three teenagers meets the medical criteria for addiction, which is scary. I'm so driven because when I walked into rehab, I was like, "Am I still drunk? Did the guys give me the wrong address? Am I at a summer camp?" And it kills them. Deaths attributed to drugs and alcohol have overtaken all other emergency-room deaths.