Andrea Evans

Andrea: (on returning to OLTL) The rumors have been going on for 18 years, but I'm glad it's finally not just a rumor. It's the 40th anniversary of the show and I think the storyline is right.

Andrea (About exercising and her similarities to her Passions character): I work out constantly. I used to dance, so I like taking a class like advanced step-aerobics. I also have a trainer. I run, I do yoga, I do Pilates. That's a very big difference between Rebecca and me. I'm a bit of a jock. I'm not a "Little Miss Priss." The running I do as Rebecca on Passions is not how I really run! (laughs)

Andrea (About working on a weird scene with Michael Sabatino in Passions, where Sabatino had to dress like a woman): He doesn't make a good woman. Kissing him was physically rather difficult because I'm 5-feet-4-and-a-half and he's like 6-feet-2 - and then they put him in these three-inch heels! I got a mouthful of fake breasts. He had the weirdest padding to give him hips and breasts, so hugging him was like hugging a big down mattress.

Andrea (on ABC's hit show Grey's Anatomy): I've been very into "Grey's Anatomy." Of course I would love to guest-star, especially with McDreamy. I've had a crush on Patrick Dempsey since long before he was McDreamy.

Andrea (About villain characters on soap operas): We look to the bad girl because she does all the things we can't do. We live vicariously through the bad girl. If you had a bunch of nice people on a soap, it'd be pretty damn boring.

Andrea (About daytime): I can't say that I'm a huge daytime viewer. I'd love to lie and tell you that I watched it every day, but that's not the truth. I'm not a big daytime viewer because I'm usually working. I had seen it and had seen enough of it to know that it seemed really promising. And I also kind of liked the idea of coming into a show at pretty much the beginning, you know. That's a new experience for me, too: coming into it when it's solidifying its place, which it seems to be doing. It's the first "new" soap to come along in a long time that I think really has a chance of succeeding.

Andrea (About her previous roles on soap operas and her current one on Passions): It was a great time in my life and a wonderful role. When people associate you with a role, either in prime time or daytime, it's because the role fits you well. I enjoyed playing Patty and Tawny, but neither of those roles were comparatively quite as good a fit. A good role can fit like a glove. And when a character fits that way, as Tina did with me, then there's much more of an identification, and I think that the audience senses that. I think the audience will see that with Passions. Rebecca is a very good fit with me. I am having a blast. I think Rebecca's a grown-up Tina in many ways.