( CNN ) -- For one minute on Wednesday night , the marquee lights of Broadway went dark in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman 's memory . The 46-year-old actor was a respected and vital member of New York 's theater community , as was evidenced by the outpouring of mourners who showed up for a candlelight vigil held by the LAByrinth Theatre Company , of which Hoffman was a member and an artistic director . He was found dead in his New York apartment of an apparent drug overdose Sunday . The Philip Seymour Hoffman we did n't know . `` We come together in a spirit of terrible mourning and incredible loss , '' LAByrinth member and Jesuit priest Father Jim Martin told the crowd gathered in front of the Bank Street Theater . `` But we also come together to celebrate a remarkable life . '' Across Hollywood , a number of Hoffman 's colleagues are offering similar tributes as they cope with his death . Philip Seymour Hoffman : Piecing together his final hours . `` It 's a shock , a total shock , '' Hoffman 's `` Hunger Games '' co-star Elizabeth Banks told `` Extra ! '' on Wednesday . `` He was an incredible actor ; everyone respected and loved him . I really enjoyed my time with him . We were playing against each other in Candy Crush just last week . So I 'm really , really , really sad . '' And to Aaron Sorkin , another venerated creator whose bond with Hoffman cemented during their work on 2007 's `` Charlie Wilson 's War , '' Hoffman 's death may become someone else 's saving grace . In a tribute in Time magazine , Sorkin recalls the `` mini-AA meetings '' he and Hoffman would have on the Paramount lot while on breaks , stretches of time where they could share stories as fathers of young kids and as recovering drug addicts . `` I told him I felt lucky because I 'm squeamish and ca n't handle needles . He told me to stay squeamish , '' Sorkin writes . `` And he said this : 'If one of us dies of an overdose , probably 10 people who were about to wo n't . ' He meant that our deaths would make news and maybe scare someone clean . '' In the end , Sorkin believes , that will be added to his already astonishing history . `` ( Hoffman ) did n't die because he was partying too hard or because he was depressed -- he died because he was an addict on a day of the week with a ' y ' in it , '' Sorkin said . `` He 'll have his well-earned legacy -- his Willy Loman that belongs on the same shelf with Lee J. Cobb 's and Dustin Hoffman 's , his Jamie Tyrone , his Truman Capote and his Academy Award . Let 's add to that 10 people who were about to die who wo n't now . ''
On February 5 , Broadway dimmed its lights for Philip Seymour Hoffman . A candlelight vigil was held outside his theater company . Hoffman 's `` Hunger Games '' co-star Elizabeth Banks is in a state of shock . She said she had no idea what to do with herself after the news broke that her friend and fellow actor died from an overdose on heroin.