Kaya Scodelario Quotes

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

At the end of the day, I want to play characters that interest me.

As an actor, I am looking for diverse roles.

I have a hunger for good roles.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

I don't go for glamour roles.

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.

For me to take a role, I read a script, and I think, 'Wow, I don't know how I'm going to do this, but I want to try.'

As an actor, you want roles that are full of meat.

My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.