Celebrity New Year's Resolutions
Jason Segel pledges to work out less, Mandy Moore will pick up a guitar, Hugh Grant may become a cattle driver, and Susan Sarandon just wants to have fun. Read more plans for 2010.
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“I think my New Year’s resolution is just to stay positive and enjoy the moment.”
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American Idol’s
Adam Lambert
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“I always make my lists and like, I laminate them and look at them—yeah, I’m serious about the lists.”
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Drew Barrymore
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“I’m kind of a work-out fanatic and I just would like to work out less because it’s gotten to be six or seven hours a day at this point and I just can’t do it anymore… it’s getting weird.”
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s Jason Segel
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“To pee when I really have to go.”
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Larry David
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“This year, my New Year’s resolution will probably be thinking more positive thoughts.”
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Jenny McCarthy
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“I just want to be awake in my life and have more fun.”
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Susan Sarandon
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“I have to respond to emails faster because I read them and I process them and I forget to reply to them. And then people get mad at me because they think I’m ignoring them, but I got the information.“
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Neil Patrick Harris
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“To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any.”
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Emily Blunt
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“To walk more… It would not only help the environment, by driving less and cutting down on the emissions that come from your car, but it’s quite good exercise. A healthy thing to do that also helps everyone.”
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James Franco
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“To not give up the dancing. I’m not going to let myself go back.”
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Dancing With the Stars contestant
Kelly Osbourne
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“To stop eating off my boyfriend’s plate. I do that all the time. I order a salad and he gets chicken fingers and fries and I end up eating half of what he has.”
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Hairspray’s
Brittany Snow
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“I give thanks on New Year’s night. I give thanks for all the blessings that I’ve had, what a terrific year that has occurred, and wish for more of the blessings for the next year.”
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Vanessa Williams
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“My New years resolution is to finally stand up for myself, not let myself be controled+manipulated by Jon… I wish for him out of my life.”
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Hailey Glassman
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“I have one really big resolution for 2010—I’m going to create the next big
American Idol show. I don’t know what the name or the concept or anything… other than I’m hosting it.”
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Survivor’s
Jeff Probst
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Start taking guitar lessons—“I’ve started and stopped lessons a million times, but I’m less likely to cancel or make other plans if I’ve made the commitment and am paying someone.”
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Mandy Moore
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“Worship my husband every day and to make Meryl Streep my best friend.”
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Alexandra Wentworth, wife of George Stephanopoulos
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“All the same ones I’ve been making for the last 40 years—I’ve got to lose 10 pounds.”
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Ellen Burstyn
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“New Year's Resolution: Use more gravy.”
–Comedian
Michael Ian Black via
Twitter
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“You know I make a resolution every night for the next day. I say prayers and I try to get myself in shape and I say, don’t do that again. All that stuff that you do.”
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Jon Voight
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“thinking about my new years resolution(s) may have a few , one--cutting out all negative people once and for all. Life is too short for B.S.”
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Denise Richards via
Twitter
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“Grateful for Gracious Readers. Resolution #4 at http://bit.ly/6LsAvG”
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Jason Mraz via
Twitter
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“To be the best mother I can be. I have a beautiful 3-year-old girl and that is what matters the most to me. You have this huge responsibility as this little person’s whole world depends on you. You always want to do right for your kids and I’m going to keep trying to be as good a parent as I can be.”
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
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“To go west. This past year while I was filming the movie
Did You Hear About the Morgans? I had the opportunity to visit Santa Fe, New Mexico, and fell in love with the Wild West and I think the Wild West also likes me. By the end of the shoot, I had the impulse to drive cattle across America. So my resolution would be to make it a point to check out more parts of that area of the United States and to spend some time there.”
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Hugh Grant
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“I’m not really big on resolutions. I’m not that guy. I think you should make resolutions all the time. It shouldn’t be because the calendar says it’s the 31st, right?”
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Jeremy Piven
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