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" I got incredibly lucky, and you have to be if you want to be quite successful. "
Kaya Scodelario
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" '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. "
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" 'Southcliffe' is extremely dark. It's an extremely depressing, intense story, but the shoot was like being at Disneyland. It was unbelievably different from what we were filming. "
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" 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. "
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" I had to learn to jog because I run like a fish. All my friends found the thought of me running on screen hysterical because I do absolutely no exercise. "
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" My first secondary school was in East Finchley, and I was one of only five white people in the year. I was really skinny and flat-chested with frizzy hair. I don't consider myself posh, but my mum brought me up to speak properly, and they picked up on that, as all kids do. "
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" I like to work. I feel blessed that I'm working. "
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" I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart. "
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" I'm not a girly girl. I don't brush my hair. "
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" I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English. "
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" I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds. "
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" I had no confidence as a child; I still really don't. Acting is the only thing I've ever felt comfortable doing. "
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" When someone shouts 'Skins' at you, its funny the first time. But after a hundred times, you think, 'I do have a name.' "
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" Everyone asks, 'What's your goal? Do you want to win an Oscar? Do you want to work with Meryl Streep?' No! I want to buy my mum a house. I want to make her proud. "
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" I really take a lot of influence from London style. "
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" My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother. "
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