Ness Quotes

What I usually hate about these movies when suddenly the guy that you were digging turns into Dudley Do-Right, and then you`re supposed to buy into all his "Let`s go do some good!" That Eliot Ness-in-a-cape-type thing. What was really important to me was to not have him change so much that he`s unrecognizable. When someone used to be a schmuck and they`re not anymore, hopefully they still have a sense of humor.

"My father was my father. His well-known-ness was something separate from that. It had no reality for me. That Arthur Miller was like a shadow person. So the only time I think about it now is when I am doing interviews and people ask me about it. Otherwise, I feel totally disconnected from that line of thought."

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can`t be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I`m not E.N., but I can promise you that I`m not Al Capone!

(on his Henry character) I can bring that role back in a second. I just rip into the little idiosyncrasies and it`s interesting, I`ve never said good-bye to Henry. That character, the introverted-ness, the soft-spoken quality is always there.

I guess it`s sort of this naive character that I play. I also do a velociraptor, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. I like writing a good joke. I like being able to use my physical-ness, like facial expressions and stuff to really take home a joke and get it across - especially like in Tiffin.

This campus reflects our Indian-ness.

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!