Hopkins In Semi-retirement.... Hollywood star Sir Anthony Hopkins has entered semi-retirement, insisting it would take a hugely tempting film offer to convince him to work again.The 69-year-old Oscar winner has achieved all he wants from his long and successful career and plans to pick and choose what roles to take from now on.Hopkins explains, "I'm beginning to think that sitting in a damp trailer in the middle of a field somewhere is not the best way to spend my time. So I tend to be choosy."I don't need to prove myself. I don't care what anyone thinks any more. I literally learn my lines and show up if I feel it's right to."Like his fellow Welshman Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins left England and a celebrated stage career to eventually enjoy the life of a Hollywood A-list actor.The restless thespian made an auspicious film debut in "The Lion in Winter" (1968), as the scheming Richard the Lionheart, and won Emmys for his TV-movie performances in "The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case" (Nbc, 1976), as accused kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann, and "The Bunker" (Cbs, 1981), as Adolph Hitler.But it was his Oscar-winning turn as Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) that brought the years of struggle and second-rate parts to an end, elevating him to full-fledged star status.

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