MacGyver quotes

[voice-over narration] People usually go to a Junk Yard looking for a bargain. I did. When I got my first set of wheels, one of them was kind of flat. I spent a lot of time in Hubcap Heaven, piecing together that first car. So would anybody else looking for a real bargain, like a matched set of top-secret pentagon missile launch codes. Of course, missiles come in all kinds, sizes and shapes. I've always been partial to round.

My mom used to make a great broiled chicken. One of my favorites. Funny, I'm starting to feel real sympathetic towards them chickens.

Herpetologists will tell you everyone has an inner fear of snakes—including herpetologists.

Some people are scared of anyone who runs free.

Budapest has gypsies like a dog has fleas.

[catching Jana picking his pocket] You looked down at your hand, that is a cardinal no-no.

We want to go with you.

Where?

America! America!

Right, right.

The US of A. Clint Eastwood! Coca-Cola!

Yanna...

Girls just want to have fun...?

You Gypsy?

No. Not that I know of. Why?

Because it takes a Gypsy to catch a Gypsy.

The man who said "Life is like a bowl of cherries" had it wrong. It's a bowl of Hungarian goulash: hot, sticky, and I'm not that hungry.

The great thing about a map: it gets you in and out of places in a lot of different ways.

[fires shot] HALT! That is far enough! [walks towards MacGyver] The map.

Now, I'd like to, but, ah, I really need it myself.

You amuse me.

[shrugs sholders and swings map at guard and hits him]

OOOH! [falls to ground]

Sorry. But I really DO need it. [MacGyver unrolls map to reveal a metal rod was inside the map and it falls to the ground]

It just goes to show ya: A good map will always get you where you want to go.

I rember one time, I was maybe 7 or 8, my dad and I took a truck load of apples to market in another town. As soon as we got there, even as little as I was, I felt there was somthing wrong there. When I asked my dad about it, he said that they'd lynched an innocent man there. I was a lot older before I understood what that meant.

I've found from past experiences that the tighter you plan, the more likely you are to run into something unpredictable.

Then how do we do it?

We fake it.

[puts tuxedo coat on MacGyver] Not bad. You look like... James Bond.

I feel like... [fake English accent] James Bond.