The Aussie Ladies Inc.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
~ Mel Brooks 1926-

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
~ Oscar Wilde 1854-1900, Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young (1894)

It's nice to have one character in the repertory who affronts another. They represent two opposing Australian classes.
~ Barry Humphries 1934- , in Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of
Western Civilisation (1991)

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.
~ Sir Charles Sherrington 1857-1952