Dawson Leery quotes from Dawson's Creek

Dawson

I'm not your other boyfriends. I'm not going to fight with you, I'm not going to lie to you, and I'm not going to cheat on you. I'm going to the movies. If you want to come with me it would be great, if not I'll see you when I get home. Because I will come home and I'm going to keep coming home no matter how hard you try and push me away. Now you can either take my word for it or you can keep on testing me, either way Jen, the results are going to be the same.

Dawson

I've had this truly bizarre, life-altering year. I... I dropped out of USC to be with this girl who I've loved in one way or another for pretty much my whole life, and then my father died, which completely rocked my universe, and then I jumped headfirst into this really intense relationship with this other girl, and we just broke up, and--and the movie has nothing to do with any of these things, but in a way, it has to do with all of them.

Dawson

[to his father at his grave] I lost my virginity. It was Jen. Believe that? After all that, it was Jen. I made a movie with a strange guy I met up at that film festival in Hooksett. And, uh... we got an agent. And now there's this guy in Hollywood who wants us to fly out there and work with him all summer. So I'll finally get to use that plane ticket that you bought me. I guess there's... some symmetry to that. The real thing I wanna talk to you about is, uh... Joey Potter. I mean, is it still ok after everything that's happened to believe that something perfect is possible? I want to be with her. I love her. Ok. (Sniffs) I'll talk to you later. Don't go anywhere.

Dawson

Every good thing that's happened in my life I've essentially managed to talk out of existence. I'm not going to do that this time.

Joey

I just don't think it's a good idea for me to sleep over anymore, you know?

Dawson

No, I don't know. C'mon, You've been sleeping over since you were seven. It's Saturday night.

Joey

Things change, Dawson. Evolve.

Dawson

What are you talking about?

Joey

Sleeping in the same bed was fine when we were kids, but we're fifteen now.

Dawson

Yeah.

Joey

We start high school Monday?

Dawson

Yeah.

Joey

And I have breasts!

Dawson

What?

Joey

And you have genitalia!

Dawson

I've always had genitalia.

Joey

But there's more of it.

Dawson

How do you know?

Joey

Long fingers. I gotta go.

Pacey

[about Jen] You think she's a virgin? Wanna nail her?

Dawson

We just met!

Pacey

And a wasted moment it was. I mean greater men would be nailing right now, you know what I mean?

Dawson

Tact, Pacey, look it up.

Dawson

See, I believe that all the mysteries of the universe, all the answers to life's questions, can be found in a Spielberg film. See, it's a theory I've been working on. You see, whenever I have a problem, all I have to do is look to the right Spielberg movie and the answer's revealed.

Jen

Have you ever heard of a twelve-step program?

Dawson

Wit! We like that around here.

Jen

Hey Joey, I love your lipstick. What shade is that?

Joey

Wicked Red. Uh, Jen, I love your hair color. What number is that?

Dawson

You'll have to excuse Joey. She was born in a barn.

Jen

That's okay. Uh, Joey, I just do highlights.

Joey

So, uh, Jen, are you a virgin?

Dawson

That's mature!

Joey

Well 'cause Dawson's a virgin and two virgins really make for a clumsy first encounter don't you think?

Dawson

You're going to die

Joey

I just thought I'd help, you know, cut to the chase.

Jen

No, it's okay, Dawson. Yes, I am a virgin. How about you, Joey?

Joey

Please, years ago. Trucker named Bubba.

Dawson

Do me a favor? If I get like this again, and I'm sure I will before this adolescent growth process is over... Next time just chain me to my bed and wait for my moment of clarity to come.

Joey

Can I use leather straps?

Dawson

Not until you explain the Crisco!

Dawson

Joey, you're going to have kiss him.

Joey

I cannot and will not kiss that cretin.

Dawson

It's a movie. You're playing a character, it's not Pacey you're kissing.

Joey

So he's a sea serpent from the deep, cite the difference.

Joey

You mean, you haven't even kissed that girl?

Dawson

It's not about the kiss, Joey. It's about the journey, creating a sustaining magic.

Joey

Does Jen fall for this warped movie logic?

Dawson

It's not warped. It's romance.

Joey

It's old, Dawson. Just kiss her, will you? Take the elevator to the next floor and get off, it's time.

Dawson

It's not that simple Joey. It's about creating the perfect moment. And it has to be planned with the right music and dialogue.

Joey

You can't storyboard a kiss.

Dawson

Sure you can.

Joey

It's not reality, Dawson. These movies that you're watching are false images that don't exist outside the city limits of Hollywood.

Dawson

Not true. They're images grounded in the reality of imagination.

Joey

Did you just pull that one out of your butt, or what?

Dawson

Everybody thinks that movies are fantasy, but they don't have to be. From Here to Eternity, you can have that. You just have to create it. That moment on the beach could be yours. You could be Deborah Kerr.

Joey

Mm, sand in my crotch, heaven.

Dawson

You know, it's attitudes like yours that prevent storyboard romances from happening. You're way too cynical.

Joey

[to Pacey] And what do you want?

Pacey

Actually something a little sexy would be good, I gotta a maybe sorta date this evening.

Joey

Hmm, who's the lucky farm animal tonight?

Pacey

Ahh, what's that, what's that stuff that makes a woman horny?

Joey

Your polar opposite?

Dawson

You mean oysters.

Pacey

Right, oysters. A dozen oysters, Joey, pack 'em up.

Dawson

[about Jen] Oh god, she's perfect.

Joey

Perfect? Dawson, you disappoint me.

Dawson

Those eyes, that hair..

Joey

Well, I grant you that the girl has certain physical attributes but nothing so original or mysterious to warrant perfection.

Dawson

Okay, easy.

Joey

I mean, a face like that leaves nothing to the imagination. The well-maintained good looks of an upper-middle class New Yorker. There's no mystery there. I can see her entire future in that pose.

Dawson

Really?

Joey

Yeah. In three years her above-average SAT scores will grant her admission into a small liberal arts college somewhere in New England where she'll major in...art history before returning to Manhattan to marry a bond trader she meets some Saturday afternoon at America's cup watching party. Within a year they move to suburban Connecticut, refurbish an old farm house, and raise three neurotically perfect children.

Dawson

You've put quite a bit of thought into this.

Joey

Not really. It's just so obvious.

Dawson

Well, to be honest, I think I prefer to let Jen surprise me, okay?

Joey

Suit yourself. I'm just trying to save you some time.

Jen

Why are you so surprised every time I jump at the chance to spend time with you?

Dawson

I don't know. Natural skepticism perhaps?

Jen

Well, get over it. Not everything in life has to be so complicated.

Joey

Hanging out with all your friends?

Dawson

Yep. That's why you weren't invited.

Joey

Phasers on stun, I come in peace. You're going to screw it up, you know?

Dawson

What?

Joey

Jen. She came and talked to me. I told her sit tight, he'll be back...

Dawson

Thanks. Appreciate it, Joey.

Joey

I explained to her that it's just displaced anger and you're just mad at your mom and dad.

Dawson

I'm mad at the world, Joey. I'm a teenager.