James McCaffrey credited as playing...
Max Payne
- Max Payne: [narrating] The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free.
- Max Payne: [narrating] Vlad was right. There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?' when you look back, see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or a forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.
- Max Payne: [narrating] All this time, we got the fable of sleeping beauty wrong. The prince didn't kiss her to wake her up. No one who's slept for a hundred years is likely to wake up. It was the other way around. He kisses her to wake himself up from the nightmare that has brought him there.
- Max Payne: [narrating] 'The things that I want' by Max Payne. A smoke. A whiskey. For the sun to shine. I want to sleep, to forget. To change the past. My wife and baby girl back. Unlimited ammo and a license to kill. Right then, more than anything, I wanted her.
- Max Payne: [narrating] Death is inevitable. Our fear of it makes us play safe, blocks out emotion. It's a losing game, without passion you are already dead.
- Max Payne: [narrating] The genius of the hole: no matter how long you spend climbing out, you can still fall back down in an instant.
- Vladimir Lem: I hate to do this, but you know how you are, you would never let it go.
- Max Payne: [narrating] Einstein was right. Time is relative to the observer. When you're looking down the barrel of a gun time slows down, your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you can live a lifetime in that split second.
- Vladimir Lem: Besides, a gentleman always avenges the insults done to his lady. You did kill Winterson.
- [shoots Max in the head]
- Max Payne: [narrating] The trouble with wanting something is the fear of losing it, or never getting it. The thought makes you weak.
- Max Payne: [narrating] We are willing to suffer, to die for the things we care about. For love, for the right choices. Because of her, I had solved the case. My case, all of it. Who I am.
- Max Payne: [narrating] The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper, more terrible it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it's like looking down into the grave of your love. Or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off.
- Max Payne: [narrating] When entertainment turns into a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke. Luck and I weren't on speaking terms. Or maybe the place was just too lame to be funny.
- Max Payne: [narrating] Your past has a way of sneaking up on you. You'll hear broken echoes of it everywhere, like a bad replay. You'll get mad at everyone for reminding you about it, even if it's all in your head.
- Max Payne: [in the manor of Alfred Woden, after Max and Mona dealed with some men together] Mona, wait. Stop. This is love.
- Max Payne: [Mona hits Max's head with her gun] When someone drags you from the wreckage when you have given in, ready to just lie there and die.
- Mona Sax: [pointing her pistol to Max] I told you not to come here. It's my job to clear up this mess and you're a part of it. Throw away your guns.
- Max Payne: [Max throws his guns away] This is love. When someone, no matter what the cost, shows you there is hope, a choice, that you can put down your gun.
- Mona Sax: [after a while pulls back her pistol] See? I can't do it.
- Mona Sax: [dropping her pistol] You're a bastard, Max.
- Max Payne: [Vlad appears at the back of Mona] This is love. Love Hurts.
- [Vlad shoots Mona at her back]
- Max Payne: What about Mona Sax?
- Vladimir Lem: I know of her, her reputation as a hired killer. I hear she is a stone fox. I would fuck her.
- Max Payne: [narrating] Right then, I hated Vlad.
- Max Payne: [narrating] Without Mona's help, I'd be a dead man. Suddenly, for the first time in I don't know how long, I realized, I didn't wish to be dead.
- Max Payne: [narrating] One last thing left to do. I was compelled to give Vlad his gun back... one bullet at a time.
- Max Payne: [narrating] I lied to myself that it was over. I was still alive. My loved ones were still dead. It wasn't over.
- Max Payne: [narrating] I felt the rise of that old familiar feeling... I hated it... I welcomed it...