When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". Kerr had a younger brother Edmund (a. However the British Film Institute's Josephine Botting curated a "Deborah Kerr Season" which included almost 20 of her feature films as well as an exhibition of posters other cinemabilia and personal items on loan from Deborah Kerr's family which took place in September and October 2010.

Her films include The King and I An Affair to Remember From Here to Eternity Quo Vadis The Innocents Black Narcissus Heaven Knows Mr. In 1994 however Deborah Kerr was awarded the Academy Honorary Award cited by the Academy as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection discipline and elegance".