Miriam Margolyes: I don't feel like a celebrity

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Gallery: He’s afraid of SPOONS?! Here are 10 extreme celebrity phobias (BANG Showbiz)"I’ve had a curious career, I suppose. " Miriam now feels a sense of "impending doom" because of her age - but she's determined to remain upbeat about life.

Speaking about her memoir, Miriam told the Observer newspaper: "[A memoir is] the obituary that you write yourself. "I am feeling alive at the moment.

But when you are old you know you’re going to die, and probably quite soon. We, those of us who are old, well, it’s the tunnel that there’s no light at the end of.

But I’m certainly not over. And I won’t be bullied by death. " Miriam acknowledges that she's nearer the end of her life than the start.