Hopkins has no plans to retire from acting

London: Anthony Hopkins is 72 but the Hollywood legend is "full of vibrancy" and has no plans to hang his acting boots in near future.

The Academy-award-winning actor, who is also a painter, says he intends to carry on acting as long as he gets work, a news daily reported. "They keep coming at me and saying `would you do this?` I say `yeah, OK`. I`m not going to turn my back on it until they tell me `It`s over and we don`t want you any more`," said Hopkins, famous for his roles in `Silence of The Lambs` and `Hannibal`. Talking about his art, which will be exhibited in Edinburgh next month, the actor said, "I suppose I could call them primitive because, as I have no academic training, I could no longer sit in an art class drawing apples or vases or nudes ? I can`t feel hemmed in. "So, I just express what I feel, my vision of life. I paint these masks and faces and landscapes and they come out of my mind. So I put a lot of colour in them. They are an affirmation of my state of mind which is, at present, vivid, in good health full of vibrancy of being," he said. The actor is not concerned with the business part of it but he is looking forward to the public response. "People are free to buy them if they want to buy them," he said. Asked whether it was important that people in Scotland appreciated his art, he said, "Yes it is. This will be a first for me in Britain. It`ll be fun to see what the response is." A selection of his paintings will be on display at The Dome in George Street, Edinburgh, from March 2 to March 6. PTI