Leslie Banks Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
June 9, 1890 – April, 21, 1952.

Leslie James Banks CBE (9 June 1890 – 21 April 1952) was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930s and 1940s.

Also known as Director, Producer

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Leslie Banks
- Imagination
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

Leslie Banks
- Time
- Trying
- Money

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.

Leslie Banks
- Work
- Friends
- Faith
That has always been it for me: family first.

Leslie Banks
- Family
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Leslie Banks
- Book
I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

Leslie Banks
- People
- Life
- World