Edward Asner: Lou Grant

Quotes 

• Lou Grant : [Lou's nightside replacement Kendall is running late again]  His excuses depress me! The one I hate most is about 'how bad the traffic was coming back from the beach'.

• Lou Grant : [Billie is gesturing to Lou while he's on the phone]  Listen, Marcel Marceau is giving a command performance here, and I gotta go.

• Billie Newman : I didn't mean for you to hang up.

  Lou Grant : [eagerly]  Did you bring me dinner?

  Billie Newman : No, I'm sorry, Lou, was I supposed to?

• Kim : [Kim is fixing a mechanical typewriter on Lou's desk as he is about to sit down]  Guy died in that chair once...

  Lou Grant : I know. That machine killed him.

• Lou Grant : Who are you?

  Scotty : I'm Scotty, the night copy kid.

  Lou Grant : You look like a congressman at a picnic.

• Lou Grant : [referring to Corrine's way of handling a phone call]  Very cagey.

  Corinne : Cagey, my ladylike behind.

• Lou Grant : [speaking to Mrs. Pynchon on phone]  We thought you were out gambling.

  Mrs. Pynchon : [at home in bed]  Owning a newspaper's all the gamblin I need to do.

• Lou Grant : Boy, Hal, you sure are a mean one. What kind of a preacher are you?

  Hal Hennecker : Terrible.

• Lou Grant : [to Hal]  Take this bilge Corrine wrote and make it sound like news.