Biografía

His former manager (who happened to be a very good friend of his) dropped him because he just wasn't getting work just the day before he got his role on Supernatural (2005), claiming she couldn't resurrect his career.

Learned to play the guitar for his part in Posdata, te amo (2007), after about a week of lessons from Heart's Nancy Wilson.

When he and his wife Hilarie Burton Morgan moved to Rhinebeck, New York, they befriended the owner of a candy shop called Samuel's Sweet Shop. After the owner died, Morgan and his wife called Paul Rudd, among others, to scrape enough money together in order to keep the shop open. The candy shop is now owned by Morgan and Rudd.

Stated that many people who recognize him mistake him for Javier Bardem.

Did a painting and donated it to the Race for the Rescues' Walk of Paws celebrity art auction on October 29, 2006. The money raised at the event went to help shelter dogs and cats in and around Pasadena, California.

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

[from his 1997 "Playgirl" magazine interview, on whether he wants to get married someday] Yes, I do. But I don't have any immediate plans because I know I wasn't good at it the first time around.

[in his "TV Tattler" interview, regarding the relationship with his television sons Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles] On set, we're like three idiot brothers.

[about coming back to Supernatural (2005)] "I'm going to call Eric [series creator Eric Kripke] and beg for my life and find a way to come back and harass these guys [Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki] in some way.