Full Name: Katherine Noelle Holmes
Nickname: Katie
Birth Date: December 18, 1978
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Toledo, Ohio
Siblings: Three older sisters and one older brother
Family Ties: Her dad, Marty, is a lawyer, and her mother, Kathleen, is a homemaker.
Tall Order: Katie is 5 feet, 8 inches tall.
Hobbies: Dancing, shopping
Favorite Bands: Sarah McLachlan, Frank Sinatra, Jewel, The Dave Matthews Band
Favorite Song: The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You. She listens to it every couple of days.
Favorite TV Shows: Party Of 5, ER
Favorite Movie: KRAMER VS. KRAMER
Favorite Books: David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars and Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Almost Undead: Katie was considered for the lead role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She removed herself
from the contention when it conflicted with her high school schedule...and the part went to Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Junk Food Junkie: Katie loves popcorn, onion rings, and cookie dough.
Dream Guy: Katie is drawn to tall guys with dark hair and dark eyes. An education, an outgoing personality, and a sense of humor also helps.
Date Bait: When Katie likes a guy, she ignores him to get his attention.
Action: Directors Katie wants to work with include Ron Howard and Woody Allen.
Java Jolt: Katie is hooked on caffeine. She treats herself to a vanilla latte every day.
Favorite Movie: My Best Friend's Wedding
Mash Notes: "She is so sweet and unassuming," James Van Der Beek has said. "I don't think she knows how beautiful she is."
If KATIE HOLMES could travel back and witness ONE PROFOUND EVENT IN
HISTORY, it would be the original WOODSTOCK.
Movie Credits: The Ice Storm, Disturbing Behavior, Go, Teaching Mrs. Tingle
JOEY POTTER -- Her mother deceased and her father in prison, Joey lives with
her older sister Bessie. They run the family restaurant together, hoping
just to pay the bills. Silently wishing for Dawson to look at her the same way
he does Jen, she covers her feelings with sarcasm. To her happiness, Dawson
finally does notice (and kiss) her. In Season 2, Joey believes she needs to
find happiness independently of Dawson. An interest in art, work at the Ice
House, new relationship with Jack and return of her father -- help her to build
a greater sense of who she is. She finds her way back to Dawson, only to
reject him when he convinces her to turn her father into the police.
Katie Holmes:
JOEY: Could Dawson Leery... the gifted, young,
self-motivated hauteur... Capeside's own
Spielbergian wunderkind...actually be...nervous?
DAWSON: Of course I'm nervous. I mean, it's one
thing to be a big fish in the small pond that is Capeside
JOEY: -- and entirely another to swim in the talent pool
with hundreds of your egocentric competitors.
DAWSON: Do you ever have one of those moments where you
realize that the world just snuck up and completely
blindsided you? Maybe I'm better suited to a career in
the fast-food industry. "Welcome to Taco Bell. Can I take
your order?" See how it just rolls off the tongue?
JOEY: Dawson, who cares whether or not you came back to
Capeside with some prize? Everything in life isn't about
winning. You have to find joy in the process. You have to
love what you do.
JOEY: What you’re telling me is that you’re the innocent victim of some
behavioral psychology experiment gone horribly awry?
PACEY: Yes.
JOEY: And you’re desperately in need of some able-bodied female to help
you provoke some preconditioned, Pavlovian homework response?
PACEY: Yes.
JOEY: That’s the worst pickup line I’ve ever heard. And I think you
should keep in mind that my tutoring services are only available from the
neck up.
JOEY: We're all strangers to our parents, Jen. They love us,
but they don't really know us. And sometimes before we get a
chance to know them, they're gone. And then you can't ask them
all the things you want to know about turnips or turkey gizzards
or what they were like when they were young. Then you never can
know them, not really. Because it's too late.
Pacey and Joey work on the "Bed & Breakfast" renovations…
PACEY: You know, I was thinking, Potter, you're gonna need a name for this
new addition. A suggestion if I may: The Pacey J. Witter Wing.
JOEY: Keep talking and it'll be a memorial dedication.
Andie feels badly about the fact that Rob fired Joey…
ANDIE: I don't know what Rob and I are. I just know that it's not worth our
friendship, Joey.
JOEY: I appreciate the sentiment. But don't break-up with that imbecile on
my behalf. Do it for yourself.
ANDIE: He's nice to me.
JOEY: So is Mr. Charley the school janitor. You don't date him.
#201 -- Joey and Dawson talking after Jen interrupted their first
date:
JOEY: Yes. I could spend the rest of my life worrying about Jen
Lindley and your unfortunate need to take care of her, but there are
so many more things for me to think about. Like France, for instance.
Do you know why I didn't go to France, Dawson? Because I wanted to
go. So badly. I mean, in France I could have started over. I
wouldn't be Joey, the waitress. Or Joey, the daughter of a convict.
Or Joey, the white trash girl on the creek. Or Joey, half of the
"will they or won't they" couple of the century. I didn't go to
France because it seemed like the easy way out. The easiest escape
from my life, which in spite of a few highlights is pretty pathetic.
And I didn't want to take the easy way out, because I figured that
sticking around here would make me stronger. That I would learn more
here, and in the midst of life's little tragedies I would grow. And
there was you, too. Dawson Leery, who finally got a clue. And it
seemed like no matter what else happened, I would be secure in that.
But I have to tell you, Dawson, as complicated as our friendship was,
it doesn't even compare to how complicated whatever you and I have
here is bound to be. And never in my life has taking the easy way
out seemed like exactly what I need to do.
#100 -- JOEY: (to Dawson) I just think our emerging hormones are
destined to alter our relationship and I'm trying to limit the fallout.
#103 -- JOEY: (to Jen) Well, let me tell you about Dawson. Granted he's
articulate for his age, but he's not exactly mature. He's a classic only child. He pouts if something doesn't go his way. And sees things only in black-and-white... anything else confuses him. And when it comes to women, there have been popes who've had more experience. I mean, the guy was a shrimp up until last summer. To say his sex life is limited is the understatement of the decade. It's barren. A desert. I don't envy what you have to deal with, believe me...
JEN: So what would you do?
JOEY: The same as you. I'd get hurt... I'd get mad... I'd get confused.
I'd ask people for advice. Maybe the wrong people. And then I'd wait... For
him to come around.
JEN: And how long does that take?
JOEY: Oh, don't go by me. I'd probably be stupid enough to wait forever.
#106 -- JOEY: I have all these feelings -- these weird feelings -- and I've
had this burning desire to express them. But I can't. I just can't. And these
feelings -- they're trapped -- they're like stuck in my heart... And I just feel
so lonely.
DAWSON: Joey. You're not alone. I was here for you in sixth grade and I'm
here for you now. Nothing you could say will change that. You can tell me
anything --anything... Maybe if you talk about these feelings that you have
-- maybe they won't be so strong anymore -- maybe you'll feel free, you know?
JOEY: I can't. I'm afraid. 'Cause if I say it, I can never take it back.
#110 -- JOEY (to Dawson about Jen): Well, for the rest of the semester
you'll be known as the guy Jen dropped. Most girls will view you as tainted
goods...
DAWSON: ...I don't know. I mean, I want to be her friend. But then again,
I don't. You know? I mean, how can you simply be friends with someone when
every time you look at them, you're thinking about how much more you really
want?
JOEY: Well, I'm no expert, but I think it can be done, Dawson.
#111 -- JOEY: I thought that this is what I wanted. For you to see me as
beautiful. For you to look at me the way you look at Jen. But the truth is,
that's not really what I want at all. I want you to look at me and see the
person that you've always known and realize that what we've had is so much
more incredible than just some passing physical attraction. 'Cause you know
what Dawson? It's just make-up -- and hairspray -- and tomorrow I'll be back
to being Joey. Just Joey. The too tall girl that lives on the wrong side of
the creek.
DAWSON: Joey, give me a minute here. This is -- this is all new to us and
we should talk about this because, I mean, we can't just go back to things the
way they were. I mean this is out there now -- forever, and, it's huge -- and
whatever happened here, we can't take it back -- ever. I mean, we have to
face this and even though I don't quite know how --
JOEY: -- you've had a lifetime to process your feelings for me, Dawson. I
can't spend the rest of mine hoping you might throw a glance in my general
direction between your tortured teen romances with whatever Jen Lindley rolls
into your life next.
#112 -- JOEY: (to her father) Do you really love me? Because I'm fifteen
years old, Dad. And I don't feel loved. I go through each day and I don't think
anybody loves me. And I know it's pathetic but it's the way I feel and I'm too
young to feel this way.
MR. POTTER: It couldn't be farther from the truth, Joey. And I'm not the
only one... Dawson Leery. He loves you, Joey.... He looks at you the way
your mother used to look at me. And you love him... You have to tell him.
Don't make my mistake, Joey. Don't wait for someone you love to get eaten up
with cancer and waste away while you hold back the one thing they're waiting to
hear.
JOEY: I'm so tired of this, Dawson. I'm tired of the way we relate to one
another. We spend all our time analyzing every detail of our sad little
adolescent lives.
DAWSON: I'll admit we know too many big words, but it's a good thing to
analyze.
JOEY: But it doesn't get us anywhere. It doesn't move us forward. We're in
the same place we were three months ago. It's time to grow up, Dawson.
DAWSON: I know. But we can...we are growing up...
JOEY: No, we're not. Everyday's the same. We watch a movie -- preferably a
Spielberg film -- find the appropriate life correlation and then pat
ourselves on the back for being so clever. And while our perception is usually
dead on, our honesty is seriously lacking... I don't wanna dance around big
words anymore, Dawson. I want to be honest.
DAWSON: Me, too. More than anything -- I want to be honest with you, Joey.
JOEY: And you think we're ready for honesty?
DAWSON: Yeah. I do.
Joey: Only if I can use leather straps.
I'm not suggesting leather straps and Crisco, just a kiss!
Dawson! These movies aren't real! They aren't kissing with their tongues. It's take 22, the girls bored, the guy's gay."
I'm going to kill you. One night in your sleep. A slit throat maybe or a screwdriver to the temple.
So let me get this straight, you tried to create some kind of snail menage-a-trois. Pacey: Well, it sounds kind of stupid when you say it out loud. I just saw this really pretty snail in the tank over by the window and I don't know but last night it just seemed really brilliant.
"I personally am not an angry person in nature, so that is the fictional part of this biography...." --Joey
* "Would you do me a favor? No more poems for awhile..." --Joey
JOEY: You think because you were together, what she did to you hurts more? It doesn't. There's no difference, Pacey. She's sixteen. And so are you. We talk like we know what's going on, but we don't. We don't know anything. We're really young and we're gonna screw-up a lot. We're gonna keep changing our minds and even sometimes our hearts. And through all that, the only real thing we can offer each other is forgiveness. I couldn't do that. Or at least I did it too late. Don't make my mistake. Don't let yourself be so angry you stop loving. Because one day you'll wake up from the anger, and the person you love will be gone.
JOEY: You think every Joey has a Dawson and every Dawson has a Joey?
DAWSON: I hope so. For their sake.
JOEY (to Dawson about Eve): You're so blinded by her cover girl looks, you
wouldn't notice if she did. I'll bet when she handed you that test you
didn't even fire one ethical comment her way? Did you? No. It's just your
friends that have to suffer through Dawson Leery's morality play. Bleached
blonde ho-bags willing to put out need not audition.
JOEY: Like voluntary manslaughter.
PACEY: Like sticking out your thumb.
JOEY: Yeah and what else? Hike up my skirt, pout my lips and strike a pose
for some horndog trucker? Stick out your thumb you sexist toad.
JOEY (to Dawson): Look, sometimes we fight our fathers and they respect us.
But sometimes we fight... and we lose them forever. You have to decide how
you want to live your life. What you can tolerate. What you're willing to
lose.
JOEY: We've been in denial all week. When we're around
other people, we pretend like nothing's changed. And then
the minute we're alone, it turns into this.
PACEY: This?
JOEY: This embarrassing grope-fest.
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