Dipping into the Creek From Rolling Stone magazine, Sept.10/98

Katie Holmes discusses friends, coming home, high school and Scott Wolf...

On friends: My friends at home are into rap. I'm like, yeah (bobs head), trying to fit in. They're like, Katie, you're such a nerd. I'm like, I know I'm a nerd. I never said I was cool. I'm always the girl that's like, what? What's going on?

On going home: It's kind of weird because some people that I knew very well and I haven't seen for a while...it's almost like they're checking you out and like, smelling you...We'll usually start off at Jamie's house and then we usually end up at this coffee place that we always go to. Then you just go from people's houses to other ones. It's pretty much lame every where you go, but it's still fun. You're in the car going, "Oh my god, did you see what she was wearing?" Or "I can't believe she was all over him."

On having a major crush: All of a sudden, [Scott Wolf] comes up behind me and he's like, hi, Katie. We were talking. I was like, beaming. You know when you're at a high school party and the cutest guy walks up to you and you're like, I hope all of my friends are watching because this is a moment in my life I want everybody to know about. I said to my manager, David, "Did you see that?!" He's like, "Katie, you're such a nerd."

On her all-girls Catholic school: You do kind of get out of there a little socially behind. Because you're not around the boys so much, so you're not comfortable. You see them on the weekend and it's like, hi (shyly). You spend five hours trying to decide the perfect outfit just so you look exactly like everybody else. God forbid you stick out. But it was fun. You still had all the traumas of Christmas dance, homecoming, it's like every single month there was something new. It's like, whoever invented dances, I want to kill.

On dating: A lot of people did date, unfortunately, I wasn't one of them. I was just so shy. Plus when you're the youngest you're used to being the baby, the cute one, the little sister, then suddenly you have to find that role of being a girlfriend, and it's like, I don't get it. I'm used to spying on people, I don't know how to be spied on.