Allende, Isabel Filmography

• A Fierce Green Fire
  2012, role: actress
• Santiago Files
  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• City of the Beasts
  2011, role: writer
• La independencia inconclusa
  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Naturalized
  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Daughter of Fortune
  2009, role: writer
• The Power of Their Song: The Untold Story of Latin America's New Song Movement
  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Isabel Allende. Erzähl mir vom Leben
  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Turin 2006: XX Olympic Winter Games
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Gifts of Grief
  2005, role: actress
• Behind the Mask of Zorro
  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Once Upon a Time...
  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Pablo Neruda presente!
  2004, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Viola Chilensis
  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Secret
  2002, role: writer
• Afrodita, el sabor del amor
  2001, role: writer
• Isabel Allende: An Extraordinary Life
  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Of Love and Shadows
  1994, role: writer
• Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Mission
  1994, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• The House of the Spirits
  1993, role: writer
• Besser als mein Haus je war
  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Canto a la vida
  1988, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Isabel Allende:

"This is just like the story of Al Capone. In the end he will be caught on tax evasion, and not because of the worst crimes he committed."

"one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years."

"This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have a tremendous impact on the future."

"I'm going to send you by fax a list of ingredients. And I want you to come up with recipes for lovers that (are) easy. Because if you're going to spend the day cooking, you won't have any energy left for love-making."

"Kingdom of the Golden Dragon"

"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken."

"For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time."

"Write what should not be forgotten"

"My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief."

"I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story."

"Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you."

"Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights."

"I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it."

"The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!"

"Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country."

"I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals."

"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."

"I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be."

"Heart is what drives us and determines our fate."

"I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year."