Leah Remini Quotes

#1. The decision to leave [the church] is you're giving up everything you've worked for your whole life. I feel that people need to understand this has been my whole life. As time goes on, you start to lose touch with the real world. The mindset becomes us against them.

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#2. And to all my fellow troublemakers, I say, "Carry on.

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#3. Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves.

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#4. So you're telling me that normal babies never sleep and always cry?

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#5. Although I do have a sailor's mouth, it's not attractive for me to hear men cursing. That kinda talk is not charming.

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#6. The big mistake I made, however, was in trying to change the system instead of just changing myself.

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#7. She had a Barbie Dreamhouse, which back then, to little girls, was pretty much the equivalent of crack. That

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#8. Either you're an able being, or you're not. Able

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#9. He wasn't attached to Scientology like I was. For him it was simply a tool to better your life. Then, if it wasn't doing that, it was time to leave the church.

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#10. I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself.

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#11. Even though Scientology sees itself as the authority on ethics and responsibility, obscuring the truth is built into its core.

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#12. I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.

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#13. How the fuck did you get into some crazy shit like this?

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#14. I used to do skits for my mom ... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

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#15. If Scientologists are happy in the church, I say God bless. Honestly, it's probably better for them to keep getting jerked off in the church, because they will never experience that kind of validation in the real world.

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#16. Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

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#17. You were either all in or all out. It is an extremist religion. There is no middle ground. And there within its structure lies the danger.

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#18. Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

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#19. Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

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#20. My actions and the things I say and do, I wonder if they have an effect on my daughter and the way she's going to be as a person. I just want her to be a good person.

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#21. I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

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#22. LRH wrote that the aims of Scientology are "a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights.

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#23. People say that celebrities stop developing emotionally at the age of their success - which for Tom had been with Risky Business at twenty-one.

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#24. But inside, I'm going, 'Oh my God, is my zipper up? Do I have a booger in my nose?' That's my inner monologue.

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#25. The guy has to kill the spider and get the dead mouse outta the pool.

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#26. There's a lot involved in going to the bathroom for women.

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#27. I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

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#28. To me, it's a structural flaw of the faith that its adherents are forbidden from challenging the leader (and its policies) at all costs. And right behind the current leader is another of the same kind.

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#29. That sums up my problem with Scientology - despite its claims to the contrary, the practice doesn't help you better the world or even yourself; it only helps you be a better Scientologist.

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#30. The weirdness of the night was starting to get to me. When tears started to form in the corners of my eyes, it was Brooke Shields, of all people, who asked me if everything was all right.

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#31. I love a man in a suit. Men should stay clothed, even if they have nice bodies.

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#32. I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

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#33. By their actions, they will show you who they are.

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#34. I am truly grateful and thankful for all your support.

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#35. It keeps you grounded, you lead a regular life and you appreciate things more.

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#36. For most of my childhood and adult life, I thought I had the answers and most of the world was just lost. As I've grown, I've learned that I know almost nothing. And so, in that I feel reborn in a sense.

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#37. Stupidly perhaps, and sometimes at the cost of my own job, or being labeled "difficult," I'm willing to say shit to people no matter who they are and what the consequences may be. And yes, in the end, I'm probably cutting off my nose to spite my face. But that's who I am.

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#38. I am a combative, inquisitive, argumentative person, and I will never allow anyone to change that.

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#39. Mommy, I know you're done with psychology" - ironically she confused the word "Scientology" with "psychology" - "in here," she said, pointing to my head. "But you have to be over psychology in here." And then she touched my heart with her finger.

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#40. I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just can't relax in a dirty environment. I like things organized.

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#41. We all have a newfound strength, in that we will never again "believe" just because.

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#42. I mean, I was full on ready to be arrested; you know, I'd just put on a little lipstick, mug shot ready.

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