Edward Asner: Lou Grant

Quotes 

• Charlie Hume : [Billie is covering a hostage situation on the spot]  This is good stuff that Billie is sending in, but why didn't she interview that father who offered to change places with his kids?

  Art Donovan : Where'd you get that?

  Charlie Hume : Peggy Daye just interviewed him on Channel 6.

  Lou Grant : [sarcastic]  Well, why don't you turn the volume up real loud, Charlie, we'll just copy it down.

  Charlie Hume : [slightly miffed]  I merely mentioned it.

  [leaves] 

• Lou Grant : [Linda is keeping an eye on the TV news coverage while working at her desk]  What happened?

  Linda : They have gone back to regular programming, but they'll cut to live coverage again...

  Lou Grant : [interrupting]  I don't mean what happened on the TV, I mean at the restaurant.

• Billie Newman : [in phone booth on the scene]  Everything is just sort of on hold here, Lou. Some of these parents are beside themselves.

  Lou Grant : [on other line at the City Desk]  I can imagine...

  [notices something on TV covering the same story] 

  Lou Grant : Eh... wait a minute, Billie. Why is the, eh... why is the Swat team leaving?

  Billie Newman : [springs into action]  You tell me. I didn't know they were. You seem to have a better seat than I have.

  [hangs up] 

• Adam Wilson : [watching the TV news coverage of the hostage situation]  Well, so much for the home edition.

  Joe Rossi : Yeah, the whole city's having breakfast and watching this.

  Art Donovan : You mean they're not sitting there glued to their newspapers waiting for further developments?

  Lou Grant : TV wins this round, no contest.

• Charlie Hume : [Lou and Charlie are surprised to see Mrs. Pynchon in the break room]  Mrs. Pynchon. We don't often see you in here.

  Mrs. Pynchon : Well, the last time was in 1977. It doesn't seem to have changed much.

  Lou Grant : Some of the sandwiches are new.

• Lou Grant : You missed your calling, Charlie. You would've made a top notch psychiatrist.

  Charlie Hume : No need to be sarcastic.

  Lou Grant : Or a detective, even.

  Charlie Hume : It was merely an observation.

• Lou Grant : The peole want subtlety, let them read The Newyorker. Our job is to spell things out.

• Billie Newman : [upset with Lou]  So when something I write gets changed around to satisfy someones notion obout what makes good copy, it makes me...

  [searches for a word] 

  Billie Newman : ... it makes me furious.

  Lou Grant : Livid, right? Outraged.

  Billie Newman : Damn it, now you're even rewriting my yelling at you!