10 Exact Moments Actors Stopped Trying

Though Marlon Brando is unquestionably one of the greatest actors of all time, he had also clearly burned out creatively by the early 1980s, resulting in him taking an almost decade-long sabbatical from Hollywood.

Though Brando received strong acclaim for his comeback role as a Don Corleone caricature in the 1990 comedy The Formula, it didn't take long for Brando's famous laziness to re-emerge, and with his increased age and weight, it was stronger than ever before.

After sleepwalking his way through a mumblesome performance in 1994's Don Juan DeMarco, Brando cemented his irreversible career nosedive with his supporting role in the infamously troubled project The Island of Dr. Moreau.

It's evident from Brando's Razzie-winning performance that his passion for acting was lone gone, ultimately resorting to having his lines fed to him through an earpiece.

In Brando's defense, his daughter Cheyenne committed suicide early in the film's production, so it's understandable he might not have been entirely focused.

Nevertheless, between his work here and his disappointingly comatose performance in 2001's crime thriller The Score, he clearly had nothing left in the tank by this point.

Brando never worked on another movie after The Score, and died three years later in 2004. His legacy remains inestimable, yet his love of acting evaporated years before his career wrapped up.