I don't want to beat this to death but aren't Jack Nicholson and Christian Slater (who also is Jack Nicholson) and Joan Allen and Philip Seymour Hoffman and almost anybody you can think of basically the same person no matter what role they play? I'm struggling to come up with a few people who aren't. Besides, I don't see his characters in Spanglish and Punch Drunk Love as being any more similar than the roles most actors I can think of are in their various roles. He was terrific in both those movies.
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