Joey, the ultimate girl-next-door, suffered a difficult childhood in which she lost her mother to cancer and faced her father's imprisonment. She was raised by her sister, a single mother, and like many of today's children, Joey was forced to grow-up far too quickly. Having become an honorary member of Dawson's family early on led to problems when the two became romantically involved. After high school, Joey enrolled at Worthington College in Boston and began the challenges of living up to her own academic expectations. Along the way she found some new loves, but none measured up to those in Capeside.
JOEY POTTER FUN FACT
-Joey is the only Dawson's Creek character to appear in every single episode!
MEMORABLE JOEY POTTER QUOTES
"I cannot and will not kiss that cretin."
"Did you just pull that one out of your butt, or what?"
"Listen here, you little third-rate wannabe... why don't you take your irritating self and go prey on someone who doesn't see through your pathetic attempt to masquerade bitchiness as research."
"It's called social evolution, Dawson. What's strong enough flourishes and what doesn't we look at behind glass cases in science museums."
"When I saw you going for Jen's hand... it's not like I wanted to be the one holding your hand. I just didn't want her holding it."
"Dawson, I'm the girl guys are friends with, not the girl guys date."
"Do you believe in magic? I never used to. I mean, how could I? 13, your mom dies, you hope against hope for magic, something to make it all better. It never comes, and, you know, you look to your father who's unable to overcome all of his tragic flaws. Well, no abracadabra there. And then there's Pacey. Well... any magic that was there, that ran out, didn't it? But, uh, then there's you. There's proof that someone out there is thinking of me... my friend who was with me always. It's pure magic."
"now you endure the agony of 'well, I’ve already kiss her so should we just check into a motel and go at it like porn stars' anxiety."
"Jack, how do you know all these things that normal people don’t know, when you don’t know things that normal people do?"
"To continue to love somebody when there's no promise of that love ever thriving, that is romance."
"Your girlfriend offers her lips to you in the spirit of teenage lust and you'd rather watch the "E! True Hollywood Story" on Danny Bonaduce for the fourth time?"
"The Witter Wagoneer? Do I look like some two-bit floozie to you
"Magically drift any closer and I'll kill you."
"You think every Joey has a Dawson and every Dawson has a 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."
SERIES FINALE CHARACTER UPDATE
Book editor based in NY, but role within the company allows her to travel regularly. Dating Pacey, her long ago bantering love-to-hate target, from the days when she longed for the boy across the Creek, her best friend Dawson. A great fan and supporter of every Dawson..s work, (whose she likes to think of as her soulmate and best friend despite their turbulent romantic past), she watches "The Creek" avidly each week, calling him after each episode.
