Edward Asner: Lou Grant

Quotes 

• Lou Grant : How long have you been on the health beat?

  Jerry Hollister : [coughs out a mouthful of smoke]  Six years now, I think it is.

  Lou Grant : Eh... doesn't all that stuff you, eh, you learn about worry you? You, eh, you smoke, you eat junk... you don't exersise.

  Jerry Hollister : Well, I think somebody has to set a bad example, Lou.

• Art Donovan : [after hanging up his phone]  Well, somebody liked our story on the Spectator.

  Lou Grant : You, eh, plan to take them all to lunch or just the ones that sound cute?

  Art Donovan : That was Kelly Morrow, the TV star. You know the one that's on that show about the big family in Oklahoma City that owns all the oil wells? Where everybody is trying to stab everybody else in the back? She's the sexy one.

  Lou Grant : Everyone's the sexy one.

• Belson : What do you think of "The Spectator"?

  Lou Grant : Not much and not often.

  Belson : Do you respect it as a newspaper?

  Lou Grant : I have hard time regarding it as a newspaper.