Game of Thrones (TV Series)

Lord Snow (2011)

Lena Headey: Cersei Lannister

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• Cersei Lannister : A good king knows when to save his strength... and when to destroy his enemies.

  Joffrey Baratheon : So you agree? The Starks are our enemies.

  Cersei Lannister : Everyone who isn't us... is an enemy.

• Cersei Lannister : When Aerys Targaryen sat on the Iron Throne, your father was a rebel and a traitor. Someday, you'll sit on the throne, and the truth will be what you make it.

  Joffrey Baratheon : [about Sansa]  Do I have to marry her?

  Cersei Lannister : Yes, she's very beautiful, and young... and if you don't like her, you only need to see her on formal occasions, and when the time comes, to make little princes and princesses... and if you'd rather fuck painted whores, you'll fuck painted whores. And if you'd rather lie with noble virgins, so be it. You are my darling boy, and the world will be exactly as you want it to be.

• Jaime Lannister : We'll say he was lying. We'll say he was dreaming. We'll say whatever we like. I think we can outfox a ten year old.

  Cersei Lannister : And my husband?

  Jaime Lannister : I'll go to war with him if I have to... they can write a ballad about us, "The War for Cersei's Cunt!"

  [Cersei slaps Jaime. He chuckles, and she tries to slap him again, but he grabs her arm and holds her from behind, firmly but gently] 

  Cersei Lannister : Let me go...

  Jaime Lannister : Never.

  Cersei Lannister : Let me go...

  Jaime Lannister : [whispers reassuringly in Cersei's ear]  The boy won't talk. And if he does, I'll kill him, Ned Stark, the king, the whole bloody lot of them until you and I are the only people left in this world.

  [Cersei and Jaime quietly sink into a loving embrace] 

• Cersei Lannister : Do something nice for the Stark girl.

  Joffrey Baratheon : I don't want to.

  Cersei Lannister : No, but you will. The occasional kindness will spare you all sorts of trouble down the road.

  Joffrey Baratheon : We allow the northerners too much power. They consider themselves our equals.

  Cersei Lannister : How would you handle them?

  Joffrey Baratheon : I'd double their taxes and command them to supply 10,000 men to the Royal Army.

  Cersei Lannister : A Royal Army?

  Joffrey Baratheon : Why should every lord command his own men? It's primitive, no better than the hill tribes. We should have a... a standing army of men loyal to the crown, trained by experienced soldiers, instead of a mob of peasants who've never held pikes in their lives.

  Cersei Lannister : And if the northerners rebel?

  Joffrey Baratheon : I'd crush them. Seize Winterfell and install someone loyal to the realm as Warden of the North. Uncle Kevan, maybe.

  Cersei Lannister : And these 10,000 Northern troops, would they fight for you or their lord?

  Joffrey Baratheon : For me. I'm their king.

  Cersei Lannister : Mm-hmm. But you've just invaded their homeland, asked them to kill their brothers.

  Joffrey Baratheon : I'm not asking.

  Cersei Lannister : The North cannot be held, not by an outsider. It's too big and too wild. And when the winter comes, the Seven Gods together couldn't save you and your Royal Army.

• [Cersei tends to Joffrey's wound] 

  Joffrey Baratheon : It's ugly.

  Cersei Lannister : A king should have scars. You fought off a direwolf. You're a warrior like your father.

  Joffrey Baratheon : I'm not like him. I didn't fight off anything. It bit me and all I did was scream. And the two Stark girls saw it, both of them.

  Cersei Lannister : That's not true. You killed the beast. You only spared the girl because of the love your father bears her father.