Kaya Scodelario

“I think of women as an all-being creature.”

“When I'm at work, I do try and embody it as much as possible.”

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

“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 would love to make a Brazilian film, but it would have to be something very close to my heart. It's such a personal thing, so I'd want to do my family proud. I'd want to do justice to Brazilian cinema. I think Brazilian cinema is brilliant. I would really love to do something, but I'm just waiting for the right thing.”

“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 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.”

“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!'”

“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 don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?”

“The moors have this weird energy. They trap you.”

“My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.”

“'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.”

“'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.”

“I remember doing my first school play. We were doing 'Oliver Twist,' and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”