Edward Asner: Lou Grant

Quotes 

• Lou Grant : [having just been introduced to Jinx Matheson]  Matheson? Shouldn't you be up there?

  Jinx Matheson : No, because Alex Matheson and I recently divorced.

  Lou Grant : Sorry.

  Jinx Matheson : And he got custody of the podium.

  [Lou laughs and Jinx joins in] 

• Linda : He said he had a message, and the message was that Mrs. Pynchon wanted Billie to stop, whatever it was.

  [walks off] 

  Lou Grant : Someones trying to keep you off the story?

  Billie Newman : You mean somebody besides you?

• Billie Newman : So, the doctor pulls away and I'm sitting there in my car in front of this big Spanish mansion, wondering what I'm doing there, when all of a sudden all of these flood lights go on. I hear angry voices, a gate opens and a big black car about a block long comes screaming down the driveway right at me.

  Lou Grant : The Batmobile.

  Joe Rossi : No, the Mathesons.

• Lou Grant : Talk to Dr. Shephard at the Historical Society, find out what's in the time capsule. Give me a little eh... background. A little 'Gee whiz, nothing ever stays the same' or 'Gee whiz, nothing ever changes.'