“Even though Scientology sees itself as the authority on ethics and responsibility, obscuring the truth is built into its core.”
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
“by its founder, L. Ron Hubbard (LRH), is incredibly alluring. Scientology offers a clearly laid out scientific process that helps you to overcome your limitations and realize your full potential for greatness. It is presented as a well-defined path to achieving total spiritual freedom and enlightenment and a full understanding of yourself and others.”
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
“Tom Cruise, the church’s most coveted, celebrated, and protected celebrity member, and David Miscavige, the tyrannical leader and current head of the church. Ironically, for me and for most other people who have left the church and spoken out against it, the very qualities that we’ve been penalized for—defying, questioning, thinking independently—are the same qualities that made us prime candidates for Scientology in the first place.”
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
“King of Queens was unpretentious and, most important, funny.”
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
“I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT when this book comes out, Scientologists will scream about religious intolerance, say that I am a liar, that I was kicked out of the church, and call Troublemaker the work of a hateful bigot or a self-absorbed person with an “insatiable craving for attention.” (That last part might not be totally untrue; I am an actress, after all.) What they will likely not do, however, is actually read this book, because that would be going against one of the basic tenets of Scientology. A member should not read or watch anything generated by someone whom the church”
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
― Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
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