Top 60 Kaya Scodelario Quotes

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.

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

The way I work, I didn’t hold the accent all day.

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

I like movies because I’ve been getting leads, and TV is more about ensemble casts.

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.

It’s important to enjoy the moment.

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

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.

We should just be good humans.

When I’m at work, I do try and embody it as much as possible.

I’ve always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

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 really take a lot of influence from London style.

I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That’s what makes us all tick, and that’s what I’ve always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.

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.

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.

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

I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.

I think if someone was really rude to me in an audition, even someone quite important, I think I’d be, ‘What are you doing? Don’t talk to me like that!’

‘Skins’ wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn’t go to drama school.

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’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.

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.

‘Skins’ meant so much to so many people. It was so much part of its time, and I was so young.

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

I believe there are some things meant only for you and the person you love.

I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn’t make them feel judged. ‘Skins’ never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that’s what sets ‘Skins’ apart.

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

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.’

I’m not comfortable doing nudity. That’s something quite personal.

I think of women as an all-being creature.

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?

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 find it easy to act being in love. I’ve experienced that and analysed it.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

What attracted me to ‘The Maze Runner’ is its pure action.

Who doesn’t want to shoot for ‘Vogue?’ I remember updating my Facebook status to say ‘Doing ‘Vogue’ today’, it was so exciting. I thought it would be really intimidating, and I don’t like photoshoots, but that was the most relaxed one I’ve done.

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.

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 a girly girl. I don’t brush my hair.

My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

I want to play Keith Richards.

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.

‘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 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’m lucky: I’ve got one of those fast metabolisms where I can eat whatever I want, and I don’t put on weight. But I know that’s only when you’re young. It’ll probably hit me when I’m 30.

‘Skins’ was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.