Leah Remini

“This is what I love about people! You meet people outside of the business, they'll tell you the truth.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have always been spiritual.”

“No one is going to tell me how I need to think. No one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to.”

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

“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.”

“Scientologists view children as spiritual beings.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I'm a very by-the-book person.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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