Wealth & Money Quote by Lee Majors

Majors lands the joke with the casual timing of someone who’s been turned into a brand and is politely resisting the upgrade. The line works because it piggybacks on the premise of his most famous role: Steve Austin, rebuilt with bionic limbs after catastrophe, the body treated as a modular machine. Majors flips that fantasy back onto the real world, where stardom comes with its own kind of disassembly: producers, publicists, and audiences carving you into a marketable silhouette.

On the surface, it’s a quip about refusing literal “parts” - prosthetics, surgery, the Hollywood tinkering that promises youth and strength on credit. Underneath, it’s a small act of sovereignty. “Keep my own parts” isn’t prudish; it’s a boundary. In an industry that sells reinvention as virtue, he’s choosing continuity over spectacle, aging over upgrading, the unglamorous dignity of staying intact.

The cultural context matters. The Six Million Dollar Man emerged in a 1970s America intoxicated by technology and anxious about bodies - Vietnam-era injury, the space race, the dawning sense that science could patch what history broke. Majors’ punchline punctures that techno-optimism without preaching. It’s affectionate toward the fantasy, but skeptical of its real-life translation.

There’s also a wry actor’s self-awareness here: he knows the character’s mythology threatens to swallow the person. The laugh is a disclaimer: I played the rebuilt man; don’t ask me to become him.