Hollywood director Woody Allen, 88, admits to spending $100 a week on lottery tickets
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Film director and sometime actor Woody Allen has a secret - he's just like the rest of us.
In an interview with the Guardian in 2019, he revealed he likes to look at rich people's houses and play the lottery.
He spends $100 a week buying lottery tickets, but, he's a little uneducated. He says the odds are 'astronomical.'
“The odds are bigger than astronomical," he told Catherine Shoard, in an interview that makes us wonder why he bothers taking tickets at all.
"You’d have a better chance of shuffling a deck of cards and naming them all in a row. I’ve never got more than two numbers.”
“I’d probably shoot myself if I got five and missed by one. That would really be a killer – but I don’t have that problem."
But he says winning wouldn't change him much.
"I've talked this over with my wife. We would still go on living in the same house, I would go on working, I don’t want a boat, I don’t want a plane.”
Allen says he enjoys wealth. “I’m not one of those people who has knee-jerk antipathy to wealth. I like to look at rich people. I enjoy taking a tour of a very wealthy estate.”
