Willie Garson — American Actor born on February 20, 1964,

Willie Garson is an American character actor. He has appeared in over fifty movies, usually playing minor roles. He is known for playing Stanford Blatch on the HBO series Sex and the City and in the related films Sex and the City and Sex and the City 2, and for his role since 2009 as Mozzie, in the USA Network series White Collar... (wikipedia)

TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.
'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say.
Not everyone looks like Brad Pitt. There are people in the world that look like me. I think people feel that I could be living next door to them. That has much more effect on me.
I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'