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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Kaya Scodelario

American

Amazing

Work

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kaya Scodelario

Clothes

Friends

" I'm the unhealthiest person in the world. I'm not fit at all. "

" My mom raised me on her own, so I decided to take her name 'cause she was my mom and my dad. "

" 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'm not the best auditioner. "

Kaya Scodelario

Best

" 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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

Kaya Scodelario

Through

Way

" It's important to enjoy the moment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" The moors have this weird energy. They trap you. "

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

" 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

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

Kaya Scodelario

School

Good

" 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

Look

Respect

" My mother is amazing. She moved from Surrey to London, taught herself English, and found a job. "

" 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 love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "