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"   Photo: Getty Images   Julianne Hough is the kind of multi-hyphenate who might inspire envy if she didn&amp;#039;t seem so darn normal. The 25-year-old professional dancer and singer (she&amp;#039;s a Billboard-ranking country performer) parlayed her five-season stint on Dancing with the Stars into a full-fledged acting career with leading roles in 2011&amp;#039;s Footloose remake and this year&amp;#039;s Safe Haven opposite Josh Duhamel. Her newest film is Academy Award\u2013winning writer Diablo Cody&amp;#039;s directorial debut, Paradise (out October 18), about a sheltered, Christian goody two-shoes who suffers horrible burns in a freak plane accident, loses her faith, and heads to Las Vegas for some good ol&amp;#039; sinning where she befriends a couple of locals (played by Russell Brand and Octavia Spencer). We caught up with the L.A.-based Hough who told us why she loves single living, hates Vegas, and was thrilled to not look sexy.  We love the way Diablo Cody writes about women, is that something that attracted you to the film?  Definitely, I think she is probably the strongest voice for women of our generation. When I first read the script I loved it and then I found out it was Diablo and I thought, &amp;quot;Oh my gosh, I absolutely want to do this.&amp;quot; For me, getting her words out of my mouth was the challenge because I don&amp;#039;t talk like that. I wish I were that quick and witty.  Was it refreshing to play a character that didn&amp;#039;t need to be sexy?  Absolutely! I felt like I was hired as an actress, and I wasn&amp;#039;t hired because of my ability to dance or sing or perform or, you know, look like a sexy redneck chick in short shorts [laughs].  Have you ever had any crazy Vegas experiences?  Honestly, I hate Vegas. I lived there for like seven months and when you live there it&amp;#039;s very, very different than when you go to party.  Where do you go when you just want to enjoy yourself?  I like to stay home and have little parties at my house where I&amp;#039;m able to feel comfortable and have my friends come over. We can totally be ourselves and act silly and goofy. Most of the time we&amp;#039;re literally on the floor laughing or, like, dancing around.  What&amp;#039;s your favorite thing about single life?  I&amp;#039;ve always been a relationship person so the fact that I&amp;#039;m on my own two feet and totally fine and happy, figuring out what I like about me, about friends, about different guys, whatever. This is the first time I&amp;#039;ve been able to actually see myself for who I am without somebody else. Of course I want to get married and have kids and have a family one day, but there&amp;#039;s time for that and I want to do it the right way.  What&amp;#039;s making you happy this week?  Halloween&amp;#039;s coming, and I&amp;#039;m gonna go carve pumpkins with my girlfriends on Sunday. I like getting into the fall spirit; I love sweaters so sweaters are making me happy.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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