Top 30 Leah Remini Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I have always been spiritual.

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

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.

I’m a very by-the-book person.

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

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

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

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

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’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.

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

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.

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.