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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. "

Leah Remini

Kind

Furniture

Always

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Very

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Conversation

You

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

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

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Happy

She

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I believe that people should be able to question things. "

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

" 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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Nose

Inside

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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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Talk

" 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. "