Leah Remini Quotes

I envision Hollywood as a race, and some people simply drop off before their turn comes around. It's all about stamina - your ability to get back up and keep going even though everything is pointing at the odds not being in your favor.

- Leah Remini

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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As a kid, I remember wondering why we lived in an apartment, not in a brownstone, and why we drove an LTD, not a Cadillac. Even now, I'm like that. If I'm on the 5th floor, I will wonder why I'm not on the 6th floor. But that was my drive. I was obsessed with my family having a better life.

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I would do another talk show if it was the way that I wanted to do it. Like, you can't tell me what we're talking about, and I want to hear real stuff.

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Oddly, moving to L.A. had nothing to do with me wanting to be an actress. My mother had a friend who was willing to take us in for a month until we could get on our feet. So we lived on her floor. It was pretty traumatic, but I found my strength through my mother in that time because she never once made us feel like we wouldn't be OK.

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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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Nicole Kidman was an inspiration to me at the time I left the church. Knowing that she went on to have a successful and happy life, both personally and professionally, helped to give me confidence.

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I was always religious. I was baptized as a Catholic. I got my daughter baptized as a Catholic.

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I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn't have a Cadillac. I didn't have, you know, plastic on my furniture. That was the right way to be if you were Italian.

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

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I don't want to be known as this bitter, ex-Scientologist. I'm not trying to bash anybody, and I'm not trying to be controversial. I just want people to know the truth.

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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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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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I didn't want to raise my daughter in the church because from what I experienced and what I saw, the church becomes everything - your mother, your father, your everything. You are dependent on the church.

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There shouldn't be any kind of judgment towards somebody who has a belief system that is not yours.

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I believe that people should value family and value friendships and hold those things sacrosanct.

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When you get your show - that's what 'King of Queens' was for me. That was my part; that was my show - I was meant to have that part.

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I loved 'King of Queens'... You can't spend that amount of time somewhere and not pick that as your favorite.

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

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You have to learn to believe you deserve love. And I'm getting there. I'm starting to believe it.

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There's a lot of things that are good in Scientology, because I wouldn't have been in it. And that's the thing: a lot of people trivialize this thing, like, 'Oh, it's Xenu, and it's a volcano, and it's jumping on couches and acting crazy.' These people are victims. We've been victimized. We believed in something because it starts out very normal.

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I have a big mouth, and I have a temper, so that's not good for people. That's not good for executives.

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

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I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

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My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She'd go in, light a candle, she'd pray, and as a child, that was comforting to me.

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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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Scientologists view children as spiritual beings.

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Because Scientologists view children as spiritual beings, you're not treated as a kid, so you're given a lot of responsibility. Your ego becomes extremely inflated.

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When it mattered the most, my mother was there for me. It was the moment that erased all those days she wasn't there.

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In my house, it's family first - but I was spending most of my time at the church. So, I was saying 'family first,' but I wasn't showing that. I didn't like the message that sent my daughter.

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What Scientology offers is a bigger game. You're part of an elite group saving the planet.

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There's things you can say about me, but here's what you can't say about me: that I'm not being genuine.

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

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

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

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Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself. You are evil.

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I don't want to be doing a show that's negative, that's filled with drama.

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If you don't care about somebody, you don't even bother to fight with them.

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My family is not so different from the rest of America. I think people love to see that, 'Oh, just because she's on television and in Hollywood, I can still relate to her.'

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My mother was in Scientology my whole life. Most people don't know that we were raised in it - I didn't decide to get into it. I was brought into it by my mom.

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I'm blessed to have a voice, and I'm going to use it.

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There was always pressure to make a Scientologist out of the people you were working with.

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

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Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

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I have always been spiritual.

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