Jennifer Garner knows how to deliver a commencement address.
On Saturday, the actress, 47, gave the commencement speech at Denison University, the same school from which she graduated in 1994, and had a few valuable life tips to share with graduates.
“If you’re lucky, your life will be 65 per cent happy, and that’s ‘fresh’ on Rotten Tomatoes,” she told the crowd. “Happiness is your own responsibility, so attack it.”
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Throughout the 20-minute speech, Garner touched on topics geared towards the graduating millennials, with tips on vaping, Halloween and consent.
“Don’t walk down the Grand Canyon to see what it looks like from the bottom,” she shared as her first tip. “It’s great from the top — you should do that. But when you get to the bottom, it’s just a big hill, and it’s a pain in the a** to climb back up.”
She continued: “Don’t smoke and don’t vape. We know, vaping smells like maple syrup or pineapple or cotton candy, whatever it is. But now that you’re going to be adulting, it’s not cute — just don’t do it,” before adding her third tip.
“I’m going to say this because everyone says it,” she quipped, “but you won’t listen because nobody does: Nothing looks better in your 50s than sunscreen in your 20s.”
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And when it comes to Halloween, Garner advises that funny costumes work best. “Go funny over sexy,” she explained. “Why would you dress like a flirty nurse when you could be a mailbox?”
She then shared an important and simple lesson on consent: “Mixed signals are not mixed signals,” she told the grads, “they’re a no.”
Garner’s speech begins around the one-hour mark in the video above.
