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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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" Acting's such a good job in that you're stimulating and pushing yourself constantly. I'd never want to do anything comfortable. "

" We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa. "

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" What attracted me to 'The Maze Runner' is its pure action. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a Londoner, so I'm a bit feisty. "

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

Kaya Scodelario

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" On 'Skins,' we only ever filmed for a couple of months in the summer. When I wasn't on set, I was doing my normal things. "

" I'm not the best auditioner. "

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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. "

" I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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 don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do. "

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

Kaya Scodelario

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