Education Quote by Ashley Scott

The charm here is how aggressively unpolished it is. Ashley Scott isn’t delivering a crafted anecdote; she’s letting you overhear excitement in real time, with all the verbal stumbles intact. “I was training more learning” is the kind of redundant phrasing you hear when someone’s still catching up to their own experience. The triple “really” isn’t elegant, but it’s effective: it’s the vocal equivalent of widening eyes. In a media ecosystem where celebrities often sound pre-approved by publicists, this reads as refreshingly unscripted.

The intent feels twofold: to signal professional seriousness (“training”) while also reclaiming the work as personal adventure (“really cool”). That’s a familiar actor move, especially in interviews around action-adjacent roles: you’re not just pretending to be capable; you’re doing the prep, earning credibility, absorbing a skill that can’t be faked. Scuba diving, specifically, carries cultural shorthand: risk, discipline, a controlled flirtation with danger. It implies grit without macho posturing.

Subtextually, the line negotiates likability. Scott positions herself as curious and game, not jaded or entitled. The admission “which I’d never done” is crucial; it invites the audience to share the novelty, flattening the distance between star and viewer. It’s also a small reminder of how acting labor gets sold: not as repetition, but as access - to experiences most people won’t have, filtered through a voice that still sounds surprised to be there.