Joey Potter quotes from Dawson's Creek

Dawson

Here I am single, sandwiched in-between two women who both dumped me. I am pathetic.

Jen

Hey, look at me, I'm dating a bible thumping hypocrite, okay?

Joey

Hey, my boyfriend may be gay.

Dawson

God, I am so lonely. I'm 16 years old and I'm so hopelessly lonely.

Joey

Is that why you got drunk?

Dawson

Yeah...Jo, why did you break up with me and run straight to Jack?

Joey

Because he wasn't you. Look, it was never about looking for something better, Dawson. It was about looking for someone who wasn't so close to me. Where I could tell where I ended and he began. I mean, our lives have always been so intertwined that in many ways I feel like you partially invented me, Dawson. And that scares me so much. I need to find out if I can be a whole person without you. I need to find out if I can be a whole person....alone.

Dawson

Well, do it quickly, okay? Because....God, I love you.

Joey

So, thank you.

Dawson

For what?

Joey

For being my friend, for understanding me better than anyone, and for putting up with me for the last 16 years...I love you.

Dawson

I love you, too.

Joey

I just, um, I hope wherever she is, she's happy.

Dawson

She's happy. She's looking down on you...and she's very happy.

Joey

Well I have to admit I am a little surprised that you are okay with this considering that it is our one month anniversary for whatever we are, or were, or are.

Dawson

Joey, we are boring, trite people okay? We're absolutely incapable of spontaneity. We do things like plan, and organize, and make reservations weeks in advance at top notch restaurants to celebrate one month anniversaries of whatever we are, or were...or are.

Pacey

Ahoy there, anyone ashore?

Joey

What are you doing here?

Pacey

It's the damnedest thing, I just got into to Dawson's row boat and it magically drifted toward your dock.

Joey

Yeah, well magically drift any closer and I'll kill you.

Pacey

You know, I almost believed that. [Jumps up to join her on the dock]

Joey

[After a pause between the two as they looked at each other] He told you didn't he? Didn't he?

Pacey

Well, what do you think?

Joey

I think I hate you both.

Pacey

Well, then you're really going to hate me when you hear what I have to say....he did the right thing. The two of you need to be apart right now.

Joey

How would you know what I need?

Pacey

Yeah...you know you're probably right. How could I possibly know what it's like to let somebody go, right? How hard it is to let someone go. The pain of knowing that even though the two of you are right for each other, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're right for each other right now. What would I know about that, right? How could I possibly know that sometimes it just makes you want to scream, hit somebody, or sit out at the end of a dock and cry...

Joey

Of all the people to see me like this, it had to be you.

Pacey

Well, you know it's a new year and who knows...[leans in close to her] you and I might even become friends

Joey

Pacey...[Looks at him] I'm upset enough as it is. [Pacey laughs]

Pacey

[Puts arm around her] Come here, Potter .

Joey

You think every Joey has a Dawson and every Dawson has a Joey?

Dawson

I hope so...for their sake.

Joey

Pacey, you probably don't want to hear this right now, and I'm sure you don't want to hear it from me, but you have to talk to her.

Pacey

No, not right now. I couldn't even look at her right now.

Joey

You have to, Pacey. You have to hear her out.

Pacey

Why? What's the difference, Joey, huh? No matter what she says the ending's still the same. She slept with somebody else.

Joey

You think that just because the two of you were together what she did hurts more? It doesn't. There's no difference, Pacey, I mean... Look, she's sixteen years old and so are you. We talk like we know what's going on, but we don't. We don't have any idea. Look, we're really young and we're gonna screw up a lot! You know, we're going to keep changing our minds and … and sometimes even our hearts. And through all of that, the only real thing we can offer each other is forgiveness. And I couldn't do that. Or at least I did it too late. Don't let yourself get so angry that you stop loving because one day you wake up from that anger and the person you love will be gone

Dawson

Someone gave it to me.

Joey

A certain someone with blond locks and a name that rimes with Steve?

Pacey

[Laughs] She's good, I like that girl, she's good. [Nudges Dawson with his elbow]

Joey

Once again, Dawson Leery proves the groin is mightier than the brain.

Dawson

No, I wanted to consult the people I thought I trusted to determine what the best thing was to do. I never thought anyone would be so weak or so self motivated to actually swipe it.

Pacey

Weak and self motivated, huh? Now which one of those two colorful adjectives would i be?

Dawson

You are who you are, Pacey.

Pacey

Yes I am, Dawson. And so are you. [Pokes him in the chest] You, Dawson Leery are a self-righteous, son of a bitch who cares more about his rose colored defunct 1950s belief system then the people who fail to live up to it, huh?!

Dawson

Interesting choice of words coming from a smug, cold-hearted son of a bitch who just dumped his girlfriend after she begged and pleaded for an ounce of sympathy.

Pacey

At least I didn't send her father to prison.

Dawson

No, you just made her go crazy. [Pacey punches him in the eye. Dawson turns around punches Pacey on the lip, sending Pacey to the ground]

Pacey

Ah...[Joey comes out from the building to see what's going on]

Joey

What happened? Dawson, what are you doing? [She goes to Pacey, leaning down and holding his arm]

Pacey

It's my fault, I'm sorry.

Joey

Dawson, this has got to stop! [to Pacey] Are you okay?

Joey

Hey, brought you a Pepsi.

Pacey

No thanks, I'm not thirsty.

Joey

It's for your lip, moron. I'm out of ice.

Pacey

I can't believe he thought I'd take that-

Joey

So what, Pacey

Pacey

I thought if I'd earned anyone's respect, it was his. I mean, if the guy who knows you better than anybody on earth thinks you're a loser, then maybe...

Joey

Then maybe you are one? Come on, I mean I thought you were a loser for years but you never believed me. [They smile at each other]

Pacey

It's just...you know when does a person start believing the general consensus about themselves?

Joey

When it's right. [They pause and look at each other]

Pacey

Do me a favor?

Joey

Hmm?

Pacey

Can you tell your friend Dawson that I'm innocent? I mean, he'll believe you.

Joey

No, my friend? Look he's your friend too. And you know as well as I do that he's somewhere right now sulking over the gravity of his wrongful accusation.

Pacey

Well good, let him stew in his own pride for a while.

Joey

Now we're all guilty of that.

Pacey

Hey, I'd never accuse him of cheating.

Joey

Yeah, well I'm pretty sure he'd never take the first swing at you.

Pacey

He started that whole thing!

Joey

I'm not getting into this.

Pacey

Okay, so tell me.

Joey

What?

Pacey

What do you think happened to that test?

Joey

I don't know. And to be honest, I don't want to know. I mean there are certain things in life you're just...better off not knowing. And things that you wish you never knew, never asked and...never saw.

Pacey

Okay, so tell me honestly...does it look that bad?

Joey

On your face, any reconstructive surgery whatsoever, is a definite improvement. [Pacey gives her a look, she smiles and laughs]

Joey

For a minute, I thought you'd been possessed by these school spirit creatures from the planet Overzealous.

Pacey

Not quite yet, but I am thinking about making a run for it before the pods hatch. What do you say Scully?

Joey

Why didn't we just drive?

Pacey

Because, Potter, on occasion my pop actually likes to use his car.

Joey

So I risk my future to cut class so I could stand in line at the post office and then traipse five miles through the wilderness carrying some stupid package?

Pacey

Oh, God. You know, did you ever stop to think about how much hormonally charged energy you waste on these quick quips and the biting banter? Your life would be considerably more productive if you would just take some more, ah… oh, what is that? More, ah… action! If you took more action.

Joey

Oh, what, like voluntary manslaughter?

Pacey

Well how 'bout sticking out your thumb, huh?

Joey

Oh yeah? And what else? Maybe hike up my skirt, pout my lips, strike some sexy pose for some horndog trucker? Stick out your own thumb you sexist toad.

Pacey

I am not a sexist, I am a pragmatist. OK? You ever seen The Sure Thing? That movie elegantly portrays one of life's simple truths-that a female standing on the side of a road, even one with a perpetual scowl like yourself, has a better chance of flagging down a car than a guy.

Joey

Since I'm the only one here with an opposable thumb, I guess it's up to me to use it.

Pacey

[a car approaches] And here's your chance. [He jumps over some bushes]

Joey

[leaning into the window] Hi...

Today is your lucky day Miss Potter, need a ride back to school?

Pacey

[showing her an old boat] Isn't she beautiful?

Joey

Yeah, in a Titanic, post-iceberg sort of way. Where did you get this?

Pacey

A friend of my brother's, he works down at the marina. He rescued her after the last hurricane. The guy who owned it didn't want her any more, so I convinced him to sell it to me for like, two hundred bucks. When I finish with this boat it is going to be sheer perfection. Look at that.

Joey

Pacey, do you know how much money and time it will take to even get this boat to float?

Pacey

Yeah. Not a minute more or less than as long as it takes me. You watch, Potter, in a couple of months I'll be sailing this baby around the world.

Joey

I hate to break it to you Captain Stubing, but you can't sail around the world in a twenty foot boat.

Pacey

Sure I can.

Joey

Where are you going to put the supplies?

Pacey

Hey, the USS Minnow was no bigger than this, and they found room for all of Mr. Howell's money, all the professor's tools, all of Ginger's clothes...(Joey starts to go up the ladder) And where do you think you're going?

Joey

(She smiles and steps down to the ground, then holds up her hand) Permission to come aboard?

Pacey

(Smiles and holds out his hand) Permission granted. (He takes her hand and helps her up the ladder to the boat)

Jen

I say witch is just a buzzword. For a girl who happens to follow her completely healthy, totally natural urges, and explore her sexuality. But see, you can't do that in school in the swingin' 1690s without getting the good townsfolk all up in arms. So what do these puritanical, impotent creeps do? Instead of reaching for the Viagra, they brand these girls as witches, they send them off to this godforsaken island to die a horrible solitary death.

Joey

Well, lucky for you, Jen... I mean, we live in a world where you can follow your natural urges without fear of persecution.

Jen

You're right. I would've been so burned at the stake by now.