Her ex-husband, Ronald Reagan, encouraged her to audition for the lead role of Angela Channing in Falcon Crest, after her old friend, Barbara Stanwyck, had turned down the part.
Jane Wyman: (On winning the 1949 Academy Award for Leading Actress in a Movie): I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.
Jane Wyman: (On commenting her newspaper interview in 1981 about her almost 50 year career in films): I've been through four different cycles in pictures: the brassy blonde, then came the musicals, the high dramas, then the inauguration of television.
Jane Wyman: (On the cancellation of Falcon Crest) It's a funny feeling, because you wake up and say, 'I'm not going to see my friends again, you know!' Because I never done anything this long.