That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there you can move mountains.

Before you start some work always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions go ahead.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change your field changes around you.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me finding balance is still a work in progress.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone particularly men think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

Because of what's going on with the economy I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.

I think older women still have a full life.

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.