Edward Asner: Lou Grant

Quotes 

• Wild Bill : You see, eh, when I was growing up on a ranch, my uncle and I, eh, he was half Cherokee, we had to pull about a hundred head o' cattle out of the mud on horseback.

  Charlie Hume : I thought you said you grew up in Germany?

  Wild Bill : Oh, yeah, well, those are my early years.

  Lou Grant : For God's sake, Bill, how many childhoods did you have?

• Lou Grant : Rossi, we got a big story here!

  Joe Rossi : Bigger than the imminent collapse of Western Civilization as we know it?

  Lou Grant : When it collapses, Rossi, it's your story.

• Lou Grant : [Lou and Rossi are stuck in Donovan's house]  Found something to keep you warm.

  [trows a women's nightie at Rossi] 

  Joe Rossi : Heh! Must be the psychiatrist's.

  Lou Grant : Donovan goes to a psychiatrist?

  Joe Rossi : No, he goes out with one.

• Lou Grant : Relax, Rossi. They'll send a road crew to pick us up.

  Joe Rossi : Channel Ten. I hate to be saved by Television!