High-Rise (2015)

Tom Hiddleston: Laing

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• Laing : You know, Toby, when I was your age, I was always covered in something. Mud, jam, failure... My father never associated himself with anything dirty. Or real.

  Toby : My father's up there.

  Laing : You mean, in heaven?

  Toby : Heaven isn't real, stupid.

• Laing : [on the building]  Prone to bouts of mania, narcissism and power failure.

• Laing : [on Wilder]  He's probably the sanest man in the building.

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  Laing : [narrating]  For all its inconveniences, Laing was satisfied with life in the high-rise. Now that so many of the residents were out of the way, he felt able to relax. More in charge of himself. Ready to move forward and explore life. How and where, exactly, he had not yet decided.

  Nathan Steele : [checking teeth]  I see the rot's set in. Do you fancy a drink? Cosgrove is here. All boys together.

  [indicates a dead man] 

  Laing : Sometimes he found it difficult not to believe they were living in a future that had already taken place.

• Laing : It's my paint!

• Anthony Royal : I've put all my energies into this tower. I'm it's midwife, so to speak.

  Laing : [Looks at design on paper]  Mmm. It looks like the unconscious diagram of some kind of psychic event.