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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Kaya Scodelario

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Respect

" 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. "

Kaya Scodelario

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Hair

" 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. "

" Every job I take, I really want to learn something. "

" When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

Kaya Scodelario

Dark

Different

" 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. "

" I think a lot of people, when they don't quite fit in in the world, use humor to combat that and to find their place in society. "

" '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 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. "

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

" I had no confidence as a child; I still really don't. Acting is the only thing I've ever felt comfortable doing. "

" My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian. "

" I think of women as an all-being creature. "

" I think, like every actor, you've just to pick what you're interested in. "

Kaya Scodelario

Just

You

" I've wanted to produce for a long time. I'd love to get a bunch of my girlfriends together - a female writer, a female director - and create something. Creatively, it's a different dimension. Why wouldn't people want that? "

" 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 want to play Keith Richards. "

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

" I would love to make a Brazilian film, but it would have to be something very close to my heart. It's such a personal thing, so I'd want to do my family proud. I'd want to do justice to Brazilian cinema. I think Brazilian cinema is brilliant. I would really love to do something, but I'm just waiting for the right thing. "

" I really take a lot of influence from London style. "

" I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds. "

" We're all lucky to be working, and I'm glad to be employed. "

" 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 played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through. "

Kaya Scodelario

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" 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. "

" When someone shouts 'Skins' at you, its funny the first time. But after a hundred times, you think, 'I do have a name.' "

" 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. "