Leslie Banks
Leslie Banks
Leslie James Banks, CBEwas 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth9 June 1890
Leslie Banks quotes about
british-actor love silver television transition ultimately wind
I'd love to be able to transition what I do into screenplays that ultimately wind up on the silver screen, television series, and like film projects.
british-actor characters female identify
Usually I identify with the female characters - all of them, actually... their strengths, their weaknesses, their fears, their passions.
british-actor contest knew next
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
began british-actor center child home hurt seriously
I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a daycare center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.
hurt children writing
I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.
family-first firsts
That has always been it for me: family first.
reality people looks
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.
blessing answers submit
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.
mom honesty home
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.
writing imagination genre
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.