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Back Door Quotes

On back doors, from entryways to privacy debates.

This page ranges from a literal back door someone avoids entirely to the debated idea of a technology back door that could let investigators access a device.

I don't enjoy the theatre. I don't go. Don't like going in the back door or the front.

Quotes by Timothy Spall

If you are playing at home to Cyprus you have to be on the front foot. You have to get the crowd onside, get at them, create chances and keep the back door closed so you don't lose any silly...

Quotes by Steve Clarke

It's really funny how I've come round to classical music around the back door with my banjo in my hand, and I love it.

Quotes by Rhiannon Giddens

With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.

Quotes by Michelle Moran

Acting Quotes

Do we want a back door in an iPhone where the government can go in to track movements if they have probable cause? I know the director of the FBI and local law enforcement want that capability.

Quotes by Michael McCaul

The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.

Quotes by Max von Sydow

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

Quotes by Luther Allison

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

Quotes by John Harrison

I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the garden and go off with my friends when I should have been at home cooking or cleaning.

Quotes by Gurinder Chadha

Back Quotes

In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls...

Quotes by Frank Crowninshield

Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes,...

Quotes by Brandon Boyd

People talk about players who should get more attention, but things like that have never bothered me. If I just play my game, walk out the back door without anybody seeing me, I'm fine with that.

Quotes by Booger McFarland

Just hearing somebody's voice in center field, it helps our guards out to know where they need to go, when the screen is coming, when the back door is coming, when the flare is coming. When different things like that...

Quotes by Andre Drummond

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

Quotes by Ali Wong

Frequently Asked Questions

Are all of these back door quotes about literal doors?
No, only one is. The others use "back door" figuratively, covering the writing industry, technology privacy, and football defense.
What does the theatre quote say about back doors?
It's literal: the speaker says they simply don't enjoy or attend the theatre, whether entering by the back door or the front.
Is there a quote about writing careers and back doors?
Yes, one argues there's no back door shortcut into the writing industry, and that reading widely in your genre is the real way to improve as a writer.
What is the technology back door quote about?
It raises the debated idea of a back door built into a smartphone that would let government investigators access it with probable cause, noting that some in law enforcement have wanted that capability.
Does a quote mention football defense here?
Yes, one uses "back door" to describe keeping a defense tight while playing an away match, so the team doesn't concede careless goals. See related Back quotes.

It also covers the writing world, where there is no shortcut in, and football, where a defense must keep its own back door shut. See Back quotes.