Biographie

In July 2021, he suffered a near-fatal heart attack on the set of Better Call Saul (2015) during the 6th and final season shoot. He attributes his survival of the trauma to, among others, his co-stars Rhea Seehorn and Patrick Fabian who were both with him at the time, and reacted so vociferously, the production's medics responded immediately. After three attempts with a defibrillator, they managed to restore his regular heartbeat. He claims to have had no memory at all of the experience, though the attack was severe enough to necessitate the insertion of stents into his heart.

Due to seeing his father's struggle with alcoholism, he almost never drinks alcohol.

He wrote Chris Farley's "Matt Foley, motivational speaker" character when they were both at Second City in Chicago.

He was on the brink of declaring bankruptcy just before landing the role of Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad (2008).

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 1725 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on April 18, 2022. David Cross and Rhea Seehorn were guest speakers at the ceremony.

David and I got cut out [of] the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life.