“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything.
There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs.
I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next.
I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”

~ Stephen Fry.