- Max Payne: The way I see it there's two types of people, those who spend their lives trying to build a future and those who spend their lives trying to rebuild the past.
- Max Payne: So I guess I'd become what they wanted me to be, a killer. Some rent-a-clown with a gun who puts holes in other bad guys. Well that's what they had paid for, so in the end that's what they got. Say what you want about Americans but we understand capitalism. You buy yourself a product and you get what you pay for, and these chumps had paid for some angry gringo without the sensibilities to know right from wrong. Here I was about to execute this poor bastard like some dime store angel of death and I realized they were correct, I wouldn't know right from wrong if one of them was helping the poor and the other was banging my sister...
- Marcelo Branco: Say Max, you're a man of the world. What do you fuckin' do with it?
- Max Payne: about what?
- Marcelo Branco: what do you do about life?
- Max Payne: Look at me, I'm standing in a nightclub, listening to music I can't stand, I'm five thousand miles from home, I'm armed and I'm drinking. You don't want to listen to advice from me, amigo.
- Max Payne: [playing piano] There it was, the soundtrack to my life, and, for a few seconds, came harmony. Finally.
- Max Payne: I had a hole in my second favourite drinking arm, and the only way we were likely to get Fabiana back now was in instalments. Whoever our uninvited guests were... I was about done playing soldiers.
- Raul Passos: I ain't waiting to see who else shows up. Come on.
- Max Payne: I thought about saying "the cops". But this was no time for bad jokes.
- Mobster: Excuse me, you Max Payne?
- Max Payne: Somehow, I didn't think he was about to tell me I'd won the lottery...
- Mobster: [Group of thugs surround Max and Raul, guns pointed at them] Freeze!
- Raul Passos: As opposed to what - disco dance?
- Max Payne: Listen, if you think I can still do a job, what have I got to lose? Apart from the weight. Very funny... Ha ha... Yes, that is a fake laugh, you jerk.
- Max Payne: I'd killed more cops than cholesterol and still no sign of Becker. It wasn't the first time it dawned on me I should probably have gone over the plan in more detail, but it was too late for that now.
- Max Payne: [hitting the elevator button] So what am I, the button pusher?
- Raul Passos: Yeah, you're so good at it. Good job.
- Anders Detling: Uh- don't shoot, por favor!
- Max Payne: You're an American?
- Anders Detling: Sure. Yeah, I'm from Steele, North Dakota, just outside of Bismark. Anders Detling. This is some place, huh? The-they told me it was a little fresh, but I wasn't expecting things to be quite like this.
- Max Payne: No?
- Anders Detling: No, see, I've... I've seen things. I was a cop for 25 years. I've seen me run over by combies. I've seen husbands who just ate their wives, but a gun fight in the disco?
- Max Payne: You were a cop?
- Anders Detling: Yeah, just retired. Whoa, what a life that was. And it gave me the money to raise a family. Look, I got a girl in a college in Wisconsin and a boy who's playing football for Minnesota state. Do you want to see a picture?
- Max Payne: No, no that's alright. It sounds nice. Listen, you stay in here, don't be a hero!
- Anders Detling: Oh, I won't. I'm retired.
- Max Payne: [narrating] Happy, healthy ex-cop, give me a break!
- Max Payne: It had taken me right into the heart of it. Becker's gimps were everywhere, so he and Branco must be close. Smart move would have been sticking with Da Silva and going straight to the hangar, but when was I ever about smart moves? I'm a dumb move guy, "Hey Max, we'll drive onto the runway, No thanks I'll walk into the main entrance". I'd put a big shit shit-eating grin on my face and let these assholes take turns trying to kill me, that's my style and it's too late in the day to hope for change. Boy were they throwing numbers at this problem, but then I wanted this. Was it redemption? Not really, it was pathetic desperation and not much else. The further in I got the more guys I saw, Becker wasn't running a police force, he was running an army. These guys were better trained and better equipped than anyone I'd seen out here and I seen some mean sons of bitches. The mission was screaming suicide but I didn't give a damn, at least I'd die being a pain in the ass...
- Max Payne: [entering nightclub] This kind of place made me want to puke. I needed a real drink to cope with the electronic music and robotic people.
- [Passos kicks the soccer ball to the goalie while taking care of Max to the first aid kit]
- Max Payne: Dumb sport...
- Raul Passos: Hey, careful, my friend. That's blasphemy in this town.
- Max Payne: [after shot Tony De Marco in the chest, narrating] I don't know why I did it, I guess I never liked seeing girls get hit, but from that moment, I was dead in that town.
- Max Payne: What about Marcelo?
- Wilson DaSilva: Marcelo, Marcelo... was an idiot. Were this true, I certainly don't believe he could possibly known about it, but I do believe that some other scheme, you know, some other bullshit, whatever that cash was Victor could have talked into something, I don't know yet.
- Max Payne: And Passos?
- Wilson DaSilva: Raul Passos is a bum ex-cop.
- Wilson DaSilva: [gets in his car, along with Max] He failed in America, failed in Sao Paulo, he was surrounded by more money, and more poverty than his tiny little head can handle. You think guys like that can be brought?
- Max Payne: No, but if...
- Wilson DaSilva: But nothing. He's probrably not a bad guy. he's just a man caught in the cross fire of a very rich family.
- Max Payne: [pauses] What about me?
- Wilson DaSilva: You? You're the fall guy. The American, running around, acting like an action hero, killing lots of people.
- Wilson DaSilva: [chuckles] You're a stroke of genius.
- Max Payne: That ain't how it is.
- Wilson DaSilva: You were an angry ex-cop. You were sitting in the bar, with a history of violence, and a history of bad temper. You were perfect.
- Max Payne: Me and Passos went to the academy together.
- Wilson DaSilva: Did you?
- Max Payne: [upsetting] I don't fuckin' know!
- Max Payne: So much for a lazy Sunday afternoon. My next trick would be a high wire act, with a fiery pit for a safety net, it was nice that no one was shooting at me for a change, but i'd take a shot in the head over a slow roast on a spit any day of the goddamn week.
- Max Payne: The smell in this place reminded me of how long it had been since I'd had any food. A drinker eats when he's loaded. A real drunk eats when he's not.
- Raul Passos: You want a camel coat, bro?
- Max Payne: I'm fine with the leather!
- Raul Passos: There's plenty here going begging!
- Max Payne: This don't show the blood so much!
- Max Payne: We'd half destroyed Sao Paulo's most hallowed place of worship. Looking back it was strange how the cops never showed up. But things had a habit of only making sense to me looking back long after I'd run out of time to fix them.
- Max Payne: Look at me, i'd been contracted to protect two people, one was being held in some hole and the other was sitting at his desk with a bullet in his head, and the company that had it's logo on my pay check was burning on top of my head.
- Tony DeMarco: Hey, let me ask you a question, where the fuck are your donuts?
- Max Payne: This kid had a well-developed sense of humor, for New Jersey.
- Max Payne: [playing piano] This was the place, if not the time, to play my dirge...
- Max Payne: [attempts to play the main theme on the piano but hits the wrong note while playing] It didn't come out right, but I wasn't in much of a stare to do anything, apart from kill people. Maybe that's the only thing I'm good for in any circumstance.
- Dave: [Max encounters the tourist in the jail cell] Hey, hey, yeah, you, you...
- Max Payne: Look who it is, Mr. Strip Club Scumbag!
- Dave: [sighs] You...
- Max Payne: Yeah, me.
- Dave: Mr. High and Mighty. Oh, you ain't going to help me?
- Max Payne: You get what you deserved, pal.
- Dave: Unbelievable!
- Max Payne: Yeah, unbelievable.
- Dave: They were legal!
- Max Payne: Mmhmm.
- Max Payne: [leaving the tourist's incarceration, narrating] That pervert could enjoy his time.
- Gang Member: [in Brazilian Portugese] Hey, American! What are you doing over there?
- Max Payne: [replies in Brazilian Portuguese] No comprende!
- [I don't know!]
- Max Payne: Leave me alone!
- Gang Member: [asks Max in both Brazilian Portuguese and English] Do you got something for me?
- Max Payne: For you? I'll tell you what I got. I got a gun and if anybody thinks they're gonna take it from me they'd be dead wrong!
- Max Payne: I'd been shot more times than I could remember, but this felt different. Maybe fate was sending me a message. Trying to tell me my luck was finally about to run out. Or maybe I just severed an artery and was bleeding out like any number of fools who got shot playing with guns. Either way, I was failing fast.
- Max Payne: It was time to take back control from whoever was out to get me. And if I didn't flush them out, at least my mid-life crisis would confuse them enough so they did something stupid. It was the only hope I had.
- Raul Passos: [after Max interrupts the interrogation between Raul Passos and the favela gang by gunfire] What the fuck was that, man? I'm working here!