Laura Moser Quotes

We're really not going to get that much money out of a lottery for a small state like Alabama.

I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID.

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.

My life is certainly not common, but I think of myself as... a 'normal' teenager.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

The business model of racing is not a pretty one.

'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

In high school I went on about three dates.

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.

A basketball tournament to pick a poker player.

Grand National Holiday

When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,' I know what's coming. They'll say to me, 'How old do I have to be to read this?' hoping I'll give them permission. But I can't do that.

'Apocalypse Now' was my craziest experience ever. I was 14 years old, and I'd lied about my age to get the role. I haven't had another film top it.

They have a new division where you have to be at least 80 years old. You play three days for a million dollars, one hole a day, and if you can remember what you shot, you win!

I was a teenager in the 1970s and grew up in Medina, Saudi Arabia.

I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund.

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.