--- title: Thandie Newton Thanks God in Emmys 2018 Speech description: Westworld's Thandie Newton gave thanks to God — with a surprise message — after her big win at the 2018 Emmy Awards. canonical: https://time.com/5399978/thandie-newton-emmy-speech-2018/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-18T20:01:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T07:54:41.374Z og:title: Thandie Newton Thanked God With a Genius Message at Emmys og:description: It's not what you think it is og:url: https://time.com/5399978/thandie-newton-emmy-speech-2018/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c693aea1ca1fd73/69893a8fdb2987cbdf260b73/thandie-newton-emmy-speech-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: 70th Emmy Awards - Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Thandie Newton Thanked God With a Genius Message at Emmys twitter:description: It's not what you think it is twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c693aea1ca1fd73/69893a8fdb2987cbdf260b73/thandie-newton-emmy-speech-2018.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Thandie Newton Thanked God With a Clever Message at the 2018 Emmys > Sponsored content. 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Westworld Season 2 - Official Trailer - HBO_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 18, 2018 8:01 PM UTC Westworld Season 2 - Official Trailer - HBO  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 18, 2018 8:01 PM UTC [Thandie Newton](http://time.com/5250470/thandie-newton-on-westworld-pay/) combined the divine with the profane when she gave her acceptance speech after winning Outstanding Supporting Actress for her work as the tenacious Maeve in [HBO’s _Westworld_](http://time.com/5294589/westworld-season-3-details/) at the [2018 Emmy Awards](http://time.com/5399016/emmys-2018-recap/) on Monday night. Newton, who took the stage in[ a fresh-off-the-runway pink Brandon Maxwell gown](http://time.com/5399673/emmys-2018-red-carpet-trend/), began her speech by acknowledging a higher power. “I don’t believe in God, but I’m going to thank her tonight,” she said. Following her holy statement, Newton then charmingly let an obscenity slip (which was bleeped out for viewers at home), before thanking the cast and crew of _Westworld_, her family, and giving a special shoutout to her daughter Ripley, who celebrated her 18th birthday that day. See Newton’s full speech below. ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] I dreamt I was on an ocean. [00:04] You and [00:10] the others, on the distant shore. Were you with us? No. [00:13] [ MUSIC ] What's it mean. Dreams [00:23] don't mean anything Deloris. [ MUSIC ] [00:29] That answer doesn't seem to satisfy you? Because [00:34] it's not completely honest. [ MUSIC ] Do [00:39] you ever stop to wonder about your actions? [ MUSIC ] [00:48] The price you'd have to pay if there was a reckoning. That [00:49] reckoning is here. [ MUSIC ] Up [01:00] until this point, the stakes were never. Real. But now you [01:01] and the rest of your kind are free. [01:06] She's something we programmed. She's not real. You're [01:07] going to take me to my daughter. [ MUSIC ] Here we are. [01:08] Kind that will never know death. [01:21] And yet we're fighting to live. There is beauty in what we [01:24] are. [ MUSIC ] We've [01:30] ridden ten miles and all we've seen is blood. This really [01:32] what you want? [ MUSIC ] [01:36] It's us or them. [01:41] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] Revenge. It's [01:45] just a different [ UNKNOWN ] [01:49] [ SOUND ] [ MUSIC ] They want a new place hidden [01:54] from God, we had something else in [01:59] mind in [ UNKNOWN ] I'm gonna burn this whole thing to [02:00] the ground. They're lost in the dark. I [02:07] know exactly what is out there. [ MUSIC ] You frighten [02:16] me sometimes, Dolores. [ MUSIC ] Why on earth [02:22] would you ever be frightened of me? 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