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" I love that kind of edgy, rock n' roll punk thing that we do so well in England. But my style adapts to where I am. When I'm in Los Angeles, suddenly I'm like, 'I need a sandal, and I need a beige dress, and I need some flowers in my hair.' "

Kaya Scodelario

Style

I Am

Hair

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Kaya Scodelario

Best

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kaya Scodelario

Mother

Love

" 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. "

" I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy. "

Kaya Scodelario

Edgy

Different

" I like working with new and young directors. "

" She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration. "

" I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school. "

" '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. "

" My hair was always frizzy. I always wanted to be blonde with lovely straight hair. I was very skinny. I was quite tomboyish, just very quiet. I always wanted to fit in; I just couldn't. "

" I'm lucky to have fallen into this trade, and I'm still fighting to stay in it. "

" 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. "

" I'm not comfortable doing nudity. That's something quite personal. "

" 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. "

" I'd love to find a really good Brazilian project, an up and coming director or something. I wouldn't want to do the typical favela story, Brazilian cinema has a lot more to offer than just that. "

" I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far. "

Kaya Scodelario

Far

Life

" I would have loved the opportunity to have gone to drama school, but it just didn't work out for me; there are always several paths, and there's a reason why I've been down this path. "

Kaya Scodelario

Path

Work

" I had a really honest conversation with my husband about equal pay because we met on a movie where he was paid more than me just because of gender. "

Kaya Scodelario

Gender

Husband

" As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense. "

" Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time. "

" A lot of my friends back home are boys, so I do well with boys I like. "

Kaya Scodelario

Well

Lot

" I wore an Urban Outfitters dress on my wedding day. It was one I had in the back of my wardrobe. It was white. We went to City Hall here in New York. I wore it with blue velvet boots my husband bought for me. I loved it. It was my favorite thing. It was chilled and spontaneous. "

" I wanna make my mark, and I wanna be part of something! "

" I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one? "

" The fight for equal rights or pay has become this thing where people expect actresses to talk about it. Why they feel that a man is worth more is an important issue to discuss - we are moving in the right direction, but we need to continue to talk about it and continue to label it as an issue. "

" Considering what the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film is about, I wouldn't be able to play Anastacia. "

" We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it. "

" 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. "

" It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking. "

" 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. "