A biography for Kaya Scodelariohasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I believe there are some things meant only for you and the person you love.”
“I'm lucky to have fallen into this trade, and I'm still fighting to stay in it.”
“Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“Every job I take, I really want to learn something.”
“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.”
“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 wanna make my mark, and I wanna be part of something!”
“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'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?”
“I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.”
“I really take a lot of influence from London style.”
“I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.”
“I had no confidence as a child; I still really don't. Acting is the only thing I've ever felt comfortable doing.”