EPISODE 39: AMIR ARISON
AMIR ARISON
On creating, donating, and feeling great.
Amir Arison is an actor, best known for starring in NBC's The Blacklist, now in its 8th season. But you may also recognize him from recent appearances on Billions, Ramy and Bull. Or you may remember him from Girls, Zero Hour, American Horror Story, or Law And Order SVU. He’s also an off-broadway theatre veteran, having appeared in plays at New York Theatre Worksop, The Signature, MCC, The Labyrinth, and The Public. He is also a director and producer, and an avid supporter of arts access and education, mental health awareness, and animal rescue.
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QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE
11:03 ~ “Create, donate feel great. And when I say create: Plant a garden journal, make a painting, write a song, get out of your head, participate... Create something if you can. Create a book club - something to get outside of yourself... It's so, so healing. And then, if not, if you can't come up with what to create, donate. And you don't have to donate out of your pocket. If you can, that's great... But there's nothing more precious than donating your time. Go be a big brother. Go walk a foster dog. Go feed the homeless... It costs nothing and the dividends are priceless.”
30:43 ~ “Life is the game. Being humans is the game. Consciousness is the strategy.” - KF
34:43 ~ "The only thing you can control when everything is stripped from you is how you receive it."
46:38 ~ “You achieve one dream and then another one forms.”
48:42 ~ "The one thing that is timeless that we know as humans... is love... That is why you don't stop loving someone that dies. And they don't stop loving you. You can feel it. I never met my grandmother and I feel her. All around me."
53:21 ~ "The key to giving is that I am the true benefactor."
57:30 ~ "Maybe you're cut and then there's a scar there and it hurts. It hurts. And then there's a scar left forever. And you see that scar. That scar is a reminder of that pain. And there's an aspect of it that doesn't quite work the same, but it does get better. And then there's beauty in the wound."