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" 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. "

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Life

Age

" I want to play Keith Richards. "

" 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. "

Kaya Scodelario

New

Background

" 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 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. "

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

Kaya Scodelario

Home

School

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

Kaya Scodelario

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Lot

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 like to have fun. I'm also a bit of the crazy one. All my friends are boys. I was bullied a lot by girls in school. There was also too much drama and demands. "

" 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. "

" 'Skins' was such a great platform for young actors. They had this whole thing about getting people who weren't trained, this new generation, this new culture. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" Being asked to memorise a script in one day when you have dyslexia is the same as having a broken foot and being asked to dance. You have to make exceptions for it. "

" We should just be good humans. "

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

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

" I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here. "

" 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

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

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

" It was hard to go into the world and start auditioning as real actors. Having to pay bills was rather scary, too. "

Kaya Scodelario

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Hard