Steve Carell Tells Princeton Seniors: "Don't Take Yourselves Too Seriously"
Be kind, make someone laugh and don't take yourself too seriously, Carell told Princeton seniors.
When comedian Steve Carell went to college, girls rejected him in person. Library books were filled with the history, dead skin cells, and Doritos-dust fingerprints of the readers before him—physical reminders of other people, which he says are missing from the electronic way we keep in contact today. “As human beings, we should naturally crave contact with one another,” Carell told the Princeton University Class of 2012 at its Monday Class Day. “But sadly, as the world grows more and more technologically advanced, we lose our ability to connect as human beings," Carell said. "We have lost touch with our simpler selves—and by 'we,' I mean you," he said. "You are young...and because of that, you are wrong." Carell, a comic actor who rose …
