MacGyver (TV Series)

Phoenix Under Siege (1987)

Richard Dean Anderson: MacGyver

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  MacGyver : When I was about ten I got my first chemistry set. I've been a beaker and test-tube nut ever since. My mom said I was gonna come up with a formula that would either improve the world... or blow up the house.

• Harry Jackson : There was a time when I could run all day without breaking a sweat. I tell ya: it's hell getting old.

  [while running up a stairwell with his son] 

  MacGyver : Age is only in the mind, Harry.

  Harry Jackson : Well, my mind tells me I'm gettin' old.

• [last lines] 

  Harry Jackson : [as MacGyver picks up a bag and opens the door]  Where you going?

  MacGyver : With you.

  Harry Jackson : Wha...

  MacGyver : Well, first of all you packed half my stuff in your suitcase. And I want to spend some time with my Gran-pa.

• Harry Jackson : Maybe the tickets aren't here. Maybe your friend, Pete, took them.

  MacGyver : [Looking through Pete Thornton's desk]  No, he doesn't like hockey.

  Harry Jackson : How can you work for a guy like that?

• Harry Jackson : I don't think we are going to make it to that game.

  MacGyver : [Looking for misplaced hockey tickets]  Come on, Harry, be positive.

  Harry Jackson : I'm positive we ain't gonna make it to that game.

• Harry Jackson : [Mentions his fear of dying alone]  I'm scared of that, Bud.

  MacGyver : I never thought you'd be scared of anything.

  Harry Jackson : Never was 'til now.

  MacGyver : You know, when I was a kid, I used to have nightmares, and you used to tell me, "Being scared's a lot worse when you're all alone."

  Harry Jackson : I was right.

  MacGyver : You're not alone, Harry. Neither am I. It's just taken us an awful long time to figure that out.

• MacGyver : [Hiding momentarily from a gunman in a stairwell]  Let's go, Harry.

  Harry Jackson : That's easy for you to say. You're not running on my knees.