Tracy Morgan Outlines Plan to Make Sobriety Cool

“Check out my Lindsay Blowhan bracelet … I’m taking it to Jacob the Jeweler to get it blinged out!” —Tracy Morgan on his alcohol-monitoring anklet [NYP]

“I don’t know when I’m going to stop breast-feeding. I’ll just keep going while I can — like, he’s getting his teeth so it is a little bit scary. He’s bitten me a few times!” —Gwen Stefani on the joy (and pain) of raising 15-month-old Kingston [The Observer]

“Afterward, I would feel unclean, like I’d compromised my own values … so I had to let them go.” —Terrence Howard, dumper of women who forced him to have sex before he was ready [Elle ]

“There’s baggage attached to coming out publicly on stuff, but there’s baggage — in my view, more damaging baggage — to goin’ and (appearing) … on Jay Leno’s show, philosophizing about Uncle Buck or whatever you’re hawkin’.” —Sean Penn, comparing his politics to the John Candy film [Esquire via MSNBC]

“I was so excited I was doing a movie. So excited. I was talking to anyone who would listen. After about five days the director pulled me aside and said, ‘Look, fuckin’ stop talking to the crew all day. Just say your lines.’” —Clive Owen on the first movie he ever made [Details]
—Elizabeth Black