There are so many things that you're supposed to conform to as an actress. Keep your mouth shut. Look pretty. Be a fashionista. I'm not stylish. I don't want to become this character.
— Kaya Scodelario
It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.
I'm a Londoner, so I'm a bit feisty.
I love my job every day. So whether it's for four years or for two weeks, it's still... And when you're working on a set, it feels like a family straight away.
On 'Skins,' we only ever filmed for a couple of months in the summer. When I wasn't on set, I was doing my normal things.
I wasn't good at anything very much at school, but I did like drama.
I'm not good at dressing up. I always feel a bit out of place. It's just not me - high heels and designer dresses - and I can't seem to get used to it.
It's important to enjoy the moment.
I do have a lot of respect for the girls in 'Hollyoaks.' It takes a lot of effort to look like that constantly. I couldn't do it.
When someone shouts 'Skins' at you, its funny the first time. But after a hundred times, you think, 'I do have a name.'
When I'm at work, I do try and embody it as much as possible.
Being asked to memorise a script in one day when you have dyslexia is the same as having a broken foot and being asked to dance. You have to make exceptions for it.
I like working with new and young directors.
I think, like every actor, you've just to pick what you're interested in.
I got incredibly lucky, and you have to be if you want to be quite successful.
I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.
I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.
It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too.
The way I work, I didn't hold the accent all day.
I'm not the best auditioner.
I like to work. I feel blessed that I'm working.
I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.
My mother is amazing. She moved from Surrey to London, taught herself English, and found a job.
Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.
My friends still see me as the girl they went to school with. We're very much home bunnies.
I'm not a girly girl. I don't brush my hair.
I don't stay in accent or anything, but internally, I get quite dark and destroy myself a little bit. But that's what I do, and I enjoy it. It's how I do my work.
Do the little things that make you feel normal and happy, even if that's just getting in your pyjamas and watching 'X Factor' at the weekend.
People don't realise how dyslexia affects your confidence and how brutal it can be. People think you're dumb, and you know you're not. it's just how your brain works.
I'm the unhealthiest person in the world. I'm not fit at all.
Considering what the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film is about, I wouldn't be able to play Anastacia.
I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else.
My mom always let me watch movies that were probably slightly too mature for my age, but she wanted me to see different stories. We grew up with quite a hard life, so she wasn't afraid to show me that in movies.
I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.
'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.
I think if someone was really rude to me in an audition, even someone quite important, I think I'd be, 'What are you doing? Don't talk to me like that!'
I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.
A lot of my friends back home are boys, so I do well with boys I like.
I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.
'Skins' meant so much to so many people. It was so much part of its time, and I was so young.
I didn't tell anyone in school that I was going to be in 'Skins.' I was terrified of them putting me down.
'Skins' has been such a great thing for our generation - I don't want it to become a parody of itself.
The best part about doing 'Wuthering Heights' was you were completely in that world. It could not have been done with CGI. You had to be there.
We're all lucky to be working, and I'm glad to be employed.
At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.
I want to play Keith Richards.
Acting's such a good job in that you're stimulating and pushing yourself constantly. I'd never want to do anything comfortable.
I'm not comfortable doing nudity. That's something quite personal.
In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.
I remember doing my first school play. We were doing 'Oliver Twist,' and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.
