“[Amy is] fantastic, fantastic. Her boobs are great as well. I shouldn’t have said that, should I? She looks absolutely fantastic ... I don’t know [how much the surgery cost]. I didn’t have to pay for it—that’s all I know. Whenever I see her, she says, ‘Dad can you give me a couple of hundred.’ But I didn’t have to pay for the boobs.”

—Mitch Winehouse, aka Amy Winehouse‘s dad, sounding more than a bit like Joe Simpson, while talking about his daughter’s breast enhancement surgery, which was rumored to have cost $56K. There are certain things dads just shouldn’t say. [People]

“A lot of women say ‘I should’ve been alive when Ruben was because I’m Rubenesque.’ So times have changed. There are different cultural norms and values and beauty identities, and the fact that thin is in—who cares? It’s why I stopped eating. I think food is for fat people and poor people. Rich people don’t eat. They get dressed up and go shopping.”

—Celebrity stylist Robert Verdi on the great thin model debate [NYMag.com]

In his new memoir, Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But…, Bobby Brown dishes dirt on his ex-wife Whitney Houston, fueling the rumors that she may have played for the other team. He writes:

“[Our marriage] was doomed from the very beginning… I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married . . . I believe her agenda was to clean up her image, while mine was to be loved and have children. The media was accusing her of having a bisexual relationship with her assistant, Robin Crawford. Since she was the American Sweetheart and all, that didn’t go too well with her image . . . In Whitney’s situation, the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation, whether it was true or not.”

Hmm ... his agenda was to be loved and get married, huh? Likely story! [OMG Blog]

“I’ve had some absolutely great relationships and some not so great relationships. I’ve been in some relationships where I’ve felt terribly alone. Just because you’re with someone it doesn’t mean you’re incredibly happy and complete.”

—George Clooney talks relationships with the Daily Mirror. Sorry, you’ll have to get in line to complete him behind me.

“I’m trying to give them the grace to see, if they’re acting out of line, I’m trying to look deeper into why that is. Why the kids are acting out. Cause it’s all inter-related. I mean, they don’t see it, but it’s all interconnected.”

—Kate Gosselin talks to Vanity Fair about the interconnectedness of, you know, fame-hungry parents who bad-mouth each other to the media every chance they get and their kids having issues.

“Just as what you are feeling in your life affects your acting, what you act in definitely affects what you are feeling in your life. I made ‘Heat’ when I was 14 and played a girl who died. A year later, I got into a fight with my mother and cut myself. I had never done it before and I never did it after that, but I think having my wrists bloody in a movie definitely affected my psyche.” [Hollywood News]

—Natalie Portman, on cutting herself when she was a teen. Seems like a high percentage of Hollywood starlets have done this.

“[Being engaged] feels great, because I’m with the right person. He may be regretting it because it’s been beyond a week and he’s in panic mode – [but] no, we’re enjoying it.”

— “Real Housewife,” Bethenny Frankel, confirms her recent engagement to boyfriend of 11 months, Jason Hoppy, who filled Frankel’s Upper East Side apartment with hundreds of votive candles and rose petals strewn across the hallway before proposing on bended knee and presenting her with a 6.5 carat diamond ring. Frankel accepted Hoppy’s proposal, but before the two could celebrate with a seven-course meal at some fancy-shmancy restaurant, she made him clean up rose petals from her camel-colored rug. Everyone now: awwwwww. [via People]

“I hate celebrities. All those pointless girls—I won’t name names, but you know who I mean. They are ‘famous.’ Ridiculous. I like women with style: actresses like Uma Thurman, icons like Audrey Hepburn. I like women with style to wear my shoes.”

—Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik on certain “celebrities.” He may not be willing to name names, but we are. Cough, LindsayParisJessica, cough. [Vogue UK]

“There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I’m a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there’s no bleed-over. I didn’t need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.”

—David Duchovny denies how his treatment for sex addiction at all helps him play a womanizer on “Californication” [The Daily Beast]

“Rumor check: went to gay bar in Palm Springs, yes. Had a blast. Danced my face off. Someone there planted a kiss on me? No. I don’t like the story painting gays as unable to control themselves. Found the crowd even more respectful than in a straight club. You know who the most flamboyant crowd is? Straight, drunk girls. They’re like a bunch of little Charles Nelson Reillys.”

— John Mayer, who once made out with blogger Perez Hilton, doing what he can to dispel rumors he had another gay kiss recently. [via US Weekly]

“When people said to me, ‘Girls can’t play rock ‘n’ roll,’ I’m like, What are you saying? Girls can’t master the instrument? I’m in class with girls playing cello, violin, piano, Beethoven, Bach. You’re telling me they can’t play guitar?”

—Joan Jett from Joan Jett and The Blackhearts in Esquire magazine. (FYI, Kristen Stewart cut her hair short because she’s playing Joan in a biopic about her first band, The Runaways!)

“Sometimes I think it’s going to be etched onto my gravestone when I die. ‘Malin Akerman: Loving Daughter, Wife and the “C**k Me” Girl.’ It’s brilliant, but maybe not something you want as a legacy.”

—“Couples Retreat” star Malin Akerman on how she plans to be remembered [Vanity Fair]

“We’re not trying yet. We’re revving up the engines. I’m only ready ‘cause time’s a-ticking. If I was 34, I’d wait another year, because I like those three-to-four gaps. I want Coco to be helping me with the next one. One child is hard. Two is probably harder.”

— 45-year-old Courteney Cox tells OK Magazine she’s almost ready to try for baby #2. Well, good luck with that! [via Hollyscoop]

“With the gay movement, it’s personal. The same religious-right a**holes who took away my civil rights and put me in jail for a year because they don’t like what I do for a living have taken away gay rights. I know firsthand how it feels to have your civil rights stripped from you. P.S. lots of lesbians marched, too.”

—Joe Francis, the guy behind “Girls Gone Wild,” on why he joined the gay rights march in Washington, D.C.

“Why is that young boys and men are unique and eccentric and mavericks when they’re different but women are ‘odd’ when we are eccentric or different?”

—Sandra Bullock gets all Women’s Studies-y talking to Pop Tarts

“I get why chicks dig him. He’s extremely kind, incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, creative and respectful.”

— Emmy Rossum explains to People magazine at the grand launch of the W Hotel in Washington, D.C. what women see in Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz who has dated many A-list ladies. Asked whether he’s her boyfriend, the newly divorced Rossum responded:

“Let’s put it this way, I’d be flattered if someone hit on me tonight, but I really can’t say if I’m available or not.”

“Well, my boyfriend’s son is 6 years old, and you wonder at what age you should stop walking around nude. Every morning he comes into the bedroom, and you’re just nude. But he doesn’t look twice; he doesn’t think about it yet. I just toss and turn too much when I sleep, and if I’m in clothes, I get all twisted up.”

— Hilary Swank explains her no-clothes sleep policy to Marie Claire.

“I still love her ... but she’s retarded, too.”

—Guy Ritchie doesn’t mince words regarding his ex-wife, Madonna, to Esquire [via New York Daily News]

“He usually likes everything, but sometimes I’ll walk out and he’ll say, ‘I think that dress might be wearing you. You don’t need that.’ Tom has great taste.”

—Katie Holmes on husband Tom Cruise in the November issue of Elle. Pardon me, but what straight man—besides Rachel Zoe’s husband Rodger—says “that dress might be wearing you”?

“im ashamed to have to be grouped into the same category of person as you. I would rather die a most painful death the be assoicated with the kind of careere your trying to make for your self. I hope i’m wrong because generally i’m not a very judgmental person, but in the case of you, that is MY entitlement.”

—Frances Bean Cobain in an “Open Letter to Ali Lohan” posted on her Twitter, which has since been deleted. Read the whole missive here.