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A curious theme seems to be emerging in actors' self-consciously humble Oscar campaign stump speeches: "Thank God I wasn't a big star when I was young, because I would have done enough drugs to kill an elephant." On last night's 60 Minutes, Philip Seymour Hoffman memorably thanked his lucky stars for late-coming fame ("I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they re beautiful and famous and rich. I m like, Oh my God. I d be dead. "), and at the BAFTAs on Sunday, George Clooney echoed the sentiment:

"I was lucky," he said. "I got famous late in life. Had I been famous at 21, I would have been shooting crack into my eye or something stupid. It is much better when you get older."

Are we the only ones who feel like Hoffman and Clooney collided on their way out of the Humbled By Success Soundbite Seminar at the Oscar nominees luncheon, and in the ensuing snarl of swag-bags and "Fuck Your Agent: How To Keep Your Acceptance Speech Under 90 Seconds" pamphlets, the two actors accidentally switched their carefully workshopped "perils of young fame" quotes? Maybe it's merely the accumulation of their career choices up to this point, but it's just so much easier to picture Clooney "19 and beautiful" and Hoffman shooting crack into his eyeball.