I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an…

I was an English major in college!

— Maggie Siff

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

— Sue Grafton

I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs.

— Meg Cabot

If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz. The good…

— Charlie Munger

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

— Mira Sorvino

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.

— Jeffrey Wright

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

I was a drama major through college.

— Creed Bratton

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

— Amy Schumer

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.”

— Mark Edmundson

“I suppose I could have been nicer when I was at Columbia. I could have been polite, respectful, turned in my papers on time.…

— Ted Rall

“It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.”

— Shelly Crane

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was…

— Carrie Coon