Josh, on Katie.

"I've really had more an opportunity to work with Katie which I wasn't given in the first two years, which is incredibly enjoyable, because I think she's really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She's really... she's effortless. I mean, there's a grace to her, to her performance... I don't think I can call it a polished grace; she just exudes it. I mean, maybe she does work at it when I'm not watching, but it just comes out of her, and she forces you to bring your best stuff to the table because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you. She... it's surreal. She has 3 years of experience now (of or about), but when we started the show, I'd find myself, not that I have the kind of experience that Michael Douglas has, but, having worked for 8 years before they had at that point, watching each of them, and Michelle who worked a little bit too, but... especially Katie and James who were just learning as they were going along, to watch Katie... she didn't even know how good she was. She didn't know what she was doing, it just came out. I'd find myself in scenes, just watching, which is a very unusual thing because that's not really what I'm there to be doing. But, she's mind-boggling. She's exactly that, she's a natural talent. So the burden then on her is to maintain and grow, but she starts from a very unleveled playing field, in that she starts so much higher than your average person. I mean, if we all start down here and have to get to learn to this level, she starts at that level, and has the potential to go on infinitely from there."

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(interview)

Why should Joey pick you?

JJ: Because I'm funny, man! Everyone likes a funny guy. And I'm nicer than Dawson.

Will there be more kissing with Katie Holmes?

JJ: There can never possibly be enough kissing with Katie Holmes!

(from YM magazine, when Josh was still dating Katie)

YM: So what's your dream girl like?

Josh: Someone who returns my phone calls! I'm pretty fond of the woman in my life right now, so she is my dream girl.

(excerpt from a mag)

"Katie is very clean-cut," says a congested-sounding Josh Jackson, Katie's former boyfriend in real life. He's on medication for a throat infection. "The only thing that's changed over the years is maybe she's been to a bar. The wild Katie is still something any parent can be proud of." Josh and Katie dated for about eight months right when Dawson's went on the air in '98. "Before the show was even on the air, she asked me out," he says. "It was the first time I was ever tracked down by a beautiful woman. Life was good." They ended up splitting because, as Josh says, their lives were "heading in opposite directions." But Josh is still a big booster for Katie: "In the beginning, it was breathtaking to watch. She was new at acting and completely unself-conscious. I'm still continually in awe of her."

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"She's gotten more beautiful over the summer. I don't know how. She's going from girl to woman. Wait until you meet her, that's when you fall in love."

"You could take her picture in the dark and she'd look good."

"When in doubt, cut to Katie."