He played Joshua Plum Martin.

He's was extremely talented because he was a stage actor first.

Heroin is a bitch of a drug. I read where he was clean for over 20 years and somehow he relapsed back into the drug. He will sorely be missed!

I'm a hospice nurse.

That was one of his lesser known movies. Very strange movie, but he was great in it.

Peace

I could sense himself in the roles - I don't know how to explain what I mean.

I remember listening to the commentary to Capote and I wish I could quote him exactly but when it came to the crying scene he prepped himself saying his character wouldn't cry when meeting with the inmate but he broke down like it wasn't planned like that saying the character probably would tell himself he wouldn't cry but couldn't help to break down when it came to it.

I found something close

In the climactic scene, Capote is saying goodbye to the killers. The way they rehearsed the scene, director Miller says, Hoffman played it very composed and unemotional. Perry asks Truman if he'll be attending the execution. `Well, would you like me to watch?' `Yes, I'd like to have a friend there.' `OK. I'll be there.'

"So," says Miller, "I asked Phil: `Do you think you'd be in that much control?
`Well, whaddya mean?
`This is sort of the emotional climax of the film, and it's horrible, and you'd do everything you could not to be in that room.
`Whaddya mean, you want me to get emotional? I'm not going to get emotional. I'm not going to make this about myself. That sounds like [expletive] [expletive] to me, go in there and cry, that's nonsense, narcissistic [expletive].'"

Six weeks later, they're filming the scene. "That morning," remembers Miller, "I say to Phil, `Phil, about this scene--'
`I'm not crying.'"
"He was very, very, very adamant," Miller says. "So, he leaves the room, closes the door, we roll the cameras, door opens, he enters the room, he looks at those two guys -- and he can't contain it. Veins bursting in his forehead, his eyes swell up with tears, and it's everything he can do to not full-on blubber. It was everything he argued against doing. Yet it's exactly what he prepared to do on another level. He was telling himself to stay composed but ultimately he couldn't, which was what Capote probably told himself in the same situation."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-2005-interview-with-philip-seymour-hoffman-20140202,0,4772620.column?page=2

He was great in everything, very versatile.