Kristoffer Polaha took the stage at Oaks Christian School earlier this month not just as a proud dad to son Caleb, but also as the school’s keynote speaker.

The fan favorite Hallmark Channel actor dressed up in robes to deliver the graduation commencement speech, and at one point even tries to burst out in a Bob Dylan song.

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At one point in his speech, Kristoffer recalled a dream he once had about meeting and walking with Marlon Brando in Chinatown, when the dream Marlon asked him to look a fish they had walked past and to tell him all the colors of the fish he saw.

“I told him I saw brown and silver,” Kristoffer said on stage, before the dream Marlon asked him again to look once more. It was then he started to see even more colors pop from the fish scales. “I saw red, and purple, yellow, green, orange…I saw every color. The tips of the scales were lined in gold.”

“The lesson,” he added, “was that you will miss everything if you don’t look closer. Look closer at yourself, look closer at you parents and cut them some slack every once and again…look closer at your professors, at your friends, at your neighbors, and at strangers that you pass day to day.”

Kristoffer then said that if you do this, “you’ll see colors that most people don’t.”

Be sure to watch Kristoffer‘s entire commencement speech below:

If you didn’t see, Kristoffer just returned from Christmas Con in Kansas City, which hosted a huge amount of Hallmark Channel stars.