LOS ANGELES ? A blessed Christmas to one and all!

We are sharing some stars? holiday wishes, plans and thoughts. Their comments say a lot about their personality.

Mariah Carey

You?re talking to Little Miss Christmas! I love Christmas. You?re going to think this is totally over the top ? I hire a Santa Claus and real reindeer to come to the house for my friends? kids or nieces and nephews, whatever. It is beyond festive. That?s part of the gift that I give to my friends and extended family. We bring them to Aspen, Colorado. It?s so much fun. Last year, my husband (Nick Cannon) dressed up as Santa Claus and woke up everybody too early (laughter). As far as giving gifts, I?m clueless every year so I just go shopping when I get there because that?s all I really like to do. I can barely ski.

A guy brings the reindeer from another location. I know it sounds very bizarre but last year, we had this driveway and it looked like the reindeer were going to land. It was very beautiful.

Sandra Bullock

We observe the German tradition (her late mother was German) on Christmas Eve and then we also have the Christmas Day morning which is what the kids are used to. But they?ve also gotten used to having Christmas Eve as well. Kids will get used to anything that entails presents (laughter). They?re happy to oblige whatever family function you want to set up as long as it has presents.

Nicole Kidman

I am most grateful for the health of my family. As for my wishes for 2010, I haven?t thought that far ahead. I am so much a person who lives day by day. That?s something I try to live by anyway. I try to stay in a place of wide-eyed wonder at this gift of life. I?m spending the holidays with my family. I?m cooking and swimming in Australia.

Charlize Theron

When I was growing up in South Africa, we didn?t have a Christmas tree and stuff like that. My family was crap (laughter). We didn?t really do the Christmas thing. In a way, I am grateful that my mother didn?t. I would be like, ?My friends got gifts and stuff.? My mom would buy me a bar of soap and she?d be like, ?There you go, you got a gift.? It made this material thing disappear.

What it really was about was food and people being together. I love that. I like the idea of making tons of food. We have a tradition where my mom, four other friends and I cook together. The kitchen is a mess. I start baking like three days before. Drink tons of good wine. I?ve now actually fallen in love with the Christmas tree thing, like going and buying a tree. But if we?re away from home, we?ll make stuff like find little things on the beach.

Kate Hudson

We usually go to Colorado. The holidays are my favorite time because we?re all traveling so much. It?s the one time we all get together. My dad (stepfather Kurt Russell) hunts. My mother (Goldie Hawn) cooks a mean stew. That?s sort of our tradition. I always look forward to that. The family?s growing. There are so many kids now. Our family holidays are becoming more festive. It?s fun to look around at this time and see the little creatures growing, screaming at each other and laughing. It?s the best moment.

I got coal one year. I was a little girl; and I remember I got a little coal in my stocking. I was like, what does that mean? The worst gift I got was a Dust Buster. It was also the funniest and the most utilized so it was all in one. I laughed my butt off. I have used that Dust Buster more than any other Christmas gift.

Jim Carrey

It?s all about family for me. I have a little boy running around now who?s in love with everything imaginary and wonderful. I get to see an unfettered look at Christmas and everything through Evan so I feel really lucky that way.

I concentrate on the consciousness within us at this time of the year where people let go of their grievances, where some do the right thing and hang out with the family and break bread. Even if initially they don?t want to do it, then they realize, this is what it?s about. This is good and they refocus. It?s the one time of the year when you look at your life, your family and spend time with them.

Presents? I don?t like all that stuff. I don?t want people to get me presents. If you?re going to get me something, donate to my charity. I don?t need any more stuff. I go, ?It?s beautiful but where am I going to put it?? Every once in a while, I appreciate T-shirts. That?s my favorite Christmas present ? a great T-shirt.

What do I like to give? I try to give things that are appropriate but once every few years, I?ll get everybody the same stuff that I ordered from TV ads like the Tummy Sizer (laughter).

My childhood memories are a little bit warped. At Christmas, there were a lot of drunks around the house ? some of them good, some of them not so good so there were characters everywhere. My job after the annoying relatives left ? the ones who were way drunk and out of control ? was to put on a show. I took it upon myself to break the tension that was in the room. I would imitate my drunken relatives. I would start saying everything they said. I?m a little kid pretending to be drunk.

Roland Emmerich

I?m likely to be in Thailand for the holidays.

(To be continued Saturday)

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