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Richard Dean Anderson
The future _"MacGyver" (1985)_ (qv) and _"Stargate SG-1" (1997)_ (qv) star was born on January 23, 1950, ...

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MacGyver Quotes

	Season 7 / Episode 13: - The Stringer MacGyver: [to Sam] You're Great-Grandfather used to say, "Only fools are sure of anything. A wise man keeps on guessing".
	Season 7 / Episode 13: - The Stringer MacGyver: [voice over] This is Richard Dean Anderson. On behalf of all of us at MacGyver, I want to thank you, our audience, for seven great seasons.
	Season 7 / Episode 1: - Honest Abe MacGyver: Get a helicopter from someplace else! Abe Sherman: This is the only one of its kind. Or at least it’s the only one of two... of its kind. I told you, it's complicated!
	Season 6 / Episode 17: - Blind Faith Nelson Richardson: What are you doing? MacGyver: I'm going to use this steam pipe like an old-fashioned muzzle loader... scatter a few stones... create a diversion. Nelson Richardson: How did you think of that? MacGyver: Uh, I don't know. It just kinda makes sense.
	Season 6 / Episode 1: - Tough Boys R. T. Hines: Hey, that's an UZI. MacGyver: No, now it's a spanner.
	Season 5 / Episode 13: - Live and Learn MacGyver: If this is really what you want for yourself, great. That's no crime. But, if it isn't... If you wake up 30 years from now and all you are is 30 years older, that is a crime.
	Season 5 / Episode 12: - Serenity Shopkeeper: You will be the only man in Montana without a gun. How will you defend yourself? MacGyver: I'll just have to think of something.
	Season 5 / Episode 12: - Serenity MacGyver: I'm not much of a drinker, but I'd be willing to pay for the food and settle for a bottle of milk. Wilt Bozer: Milk? Milt Bozer: What kind, pilgrim? Cow? Horse? Goat? or Mother's?
	Season 5 / Episode 12: - Serenity MacGyver: [to Pete] Look at me! I'm a hurting guy! I'm beat up! I need a month's worth of sleep! [pause] And I need a haircut!
	Season 5 / Episode 10: - Two Times Trouble Carla Yeats: Oh, I can't believe it! MacGyver, Carla Yeats: Hi. [they hug] Carla Yeats: Well, look at you. You're still the best looking guy on the block. [kisses MacGyver] It's great to see you. MacGyver: Woah. With a welcome like that, you mind if I come in again?
	Season 5 / Episode 9: - The Ten Percent Solution Pete Thornton: MacGyver, you look terrific in a tuxedo. MacGyver: Purely camouflage.
	Season 5 / Episode 8: - Black Rhino Kate Hubley: I can handle it. MacGyver: Didn't say you couldn't. Just offering help. MacGyver: I can find it. Kate Hubley: I didn't say you couldn't. Just offering my help.
	Season 5 / Episode 6: - Halloween Knights Murdoc: They've kidnapped someone very close to me, MacGyver. MacGyver: Someone is close to you?
	Season 5 / Episode 6: - Halloween Knights MacGyver: Hand me that apple, and the cabbage. Murdoc: [puzzled] Apple and a cabbage?
	Season 5 / Episode 6: - Halloween Knights Ashton Cooke: I'm so sorry about your friend. He must be a very special person. MacGyver: You could say that.
	Season 5 / Episode 6: - Halloween Knights MacGyver: Ahoy there! MacGyver: Hellooo. Milt Bozer: [stops] Oh, well hi. Happy Halloween. You know anything about electric winches? MacGyver: Enough to know that beating it won't do much good. Milt Bozer: Yeah. Well I tried threatening it. MacGyver: [with increasing urgency] Wait wait woah woah woah woah whoa! Wait a minute here! MacGyver: I'll make a deal with you. You keep down the racket so I can get some sleep, and I'll take a look at it. Milt Bozer: You mean it? Great! Name's Milt Bozer. MacGyver: MacGyver. Milt Bozer: I could sure use a neighbor who knows how to fix things. To bad you're moving. MacGyver: Who says I'm moving? Milt Bozer: Well, the guy with the moving van. MacGyver: [runs into his houseboat] Oh, no. No, no, it can't be, not again!
	Season 5 / Episode 4: - Cease Fire MacGyver: I'm going to need a nail. Lisa Woodman: What for? MacGyver: Well, if I can weld a good spark plug it'll replace the electrode. Lisa Woodman: How are you going to weld it? MacGyver: With wire, a battery, and jumper cables. Lisa Woodman: How do you come up with this stuff? MacGyver: Well, the stuff's already here. I just find a different way to use it.
	Season 5 / Episode 4: - Cease Fire Lisa Woodman: [On Mac's talent of making something out of nothing] How do you come up with this stuff? MacGyver: Oh, the stuff's already here, I just find another way to use it
	Season 5 / Episode 4: - Cease Fire MacGyver: It was not a smart thing to do. Lisa Woodman: It was your idea. MacGyver: My idea? Lisa Woodman: I had something important to tell you. You said if I had something to say, to say it. It woulda been kinda tough to tell you if you were halfway across the lake, wouldn't it? MacGyver: Well, yeah.
	Season 5 / Episode 1: - Legend of the Holy Rose (1) MacGyver: Why do I get the idea that being your friend could be dangerous?
	Season 5 / Episode 1: - Legend of the Holy Rose (1) MacGyver: I'm afraid I have an idea.
	Season 5 / Episode 1: - Legend of the Holy Rose (1) Professor Zoe Ryan: I need your help to find the Holy Grail! MacGyver: Indiana Jones already found it. I saw the movie.
	Season 4 / Episode 19: - Unfinished Business MacGyver: You know, this may come as a shock to you, Jack, but most people go out and work for a living instead of dragging their friends from one disaster to another.
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Runners Jennifer/Crystal: Why do you care what happens to me? MacGyver: I don't know. I just do.
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Runners Jennifer/Crystal: What are you doing? MacGyver: Trying to save what's left of your life!
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Runners Jennifer/Crystal: I finally got you figured out. Why you're always on the brink of disaster. MacGyver: Why's that? Jennifer/Crystal: Part of you is trying to be in the car to rescue your father and your grandmother, and part of you is still trying to get home in time to say goodbye to your mother.
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Runners MacGyver: Would you stop the hustle? It really doesn't look good on you.
	Season 4 / Episode 13: - Runners Baglady: Back off, or I mace the face. MacGyver: [puts his hands in the air, looks at the can] That's not mace. That's hairspray.
	Season 4 / Episode 12: - The Challenge MacGyver: I'm told kids like me once they get to know me. Ray: Yeah, well I ain't no kid and I don't like you.
	Season 4 / Episode 12: - The Challenge MacGyver: Every action has a reaction. You've got to believe that.

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