Morgan Freeman is the owner of one of the most famous voices in the United States. He’s narrated an array of films and commercials, and Mark Zuckerberg recently asked him to record the voice for Jarvis, a virtual home assistant system that he designed. But the actor, who spoke to Mr. Meyers on “Late Night” on Wednesday, is getting tired of friends asking him to record voice mail greetings.

MORGAN FREEMAN: It gets exhausting, you know? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said, “Hello, this is so and so — is not willing to come to the phone right now.” You know? Or something.

SETH MEYERS: Well you know, if you want me to record yours, I feel like you have one coming, karmically. Because no one’s ever asked me.

FREEMAN: Well, I would, Seth, but I have the absolute perfect telephone answerer. The guy who installed the system is a Southerner with just the most godawful Mississippi drawl you ever heard, who calls and says, “Hellaw? Layve a numba.”

MEYERS: Is that true?

FREEMAN: Yes. He sounds about as far away from me as you can get.

MEYERS: You just had him do it?

FREEMAN: He did it as a test and I wouldn’t change it. It was perfect.

MEYERS: So the one place you can’t hear an outgoing voice mail from Morgan Freeman is on Morgan Freeman’s phone.

FREEMAN: Absolutely.

MEYERS: Well, there you go.

FREEMAN: Because if you called there and you have never called before, you got the wrong number.

MEYERS: Oh, I see!