Bryan Cranston on how his upbringing serves as a source of inspiration for his acting

Bryan Cranston gained immense popularity for his Emmy Award-winning performance in "Breaking Bad." He now co-owns a mezcal business with his "Breaking Bad" co-star Aaron Paul and has written an autobiography, "A Life in Parts," in which he reflects on his upbringing. Cranston's father left when he was 11 and he didn't see him for a decade.

The actor said his experiences have given him opportunities to draw on past emotions — like despair and doubt — in his acting.

"You have to be willing and able to open up the treasure chest of your own experience and your own emotional, you know, value, and pull out the things that you may not be wanting to show people, you know, greed and jealousy and resentment and all the things that we humans feel," he said Tuesday on "CBS Mornings."