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" 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. "

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" The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand. "

Kaya Scodelario

You

Expectations

Life

" My friends still see me as the girl they went to school with. We're very much home bunnies. "

Kaya Scodelario

Home

School

" 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'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. "

" It's important to enjoy the moment. "

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

" 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. "

" Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules. "

Kaya Scodelario

Myself

Happiness

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

" 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? "

" 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 got incredibly lucky, and you have to be if you want to be quite successful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I can't wait to take my son to see 'Wonder Woman' - I can't wait to show him all the female characters can be well-rounded people. "

" I'm not a girly girl. I don't brush my hair. "

" 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

Myself

Hair

" I didn't tell anyone in school that I was going to be in 'Skins.' I was terrified of them putting me down. "

Kaya Scodelario

Terrified

Down

" 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

" It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest. "

" I am quite proud that I managed to prove that you don't have to be able to afford drama school or have the right connections to do well. "

" 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. "

Kaya Scodelario

Doing

Acting

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I wasn't good at anything very much at school, but I did like drama. "

Kaya Scodelario

School

Good