A person's character, or propensity, is inadmissible to show that person's conduct on a specific occasion.

Fed. R. Evid. 804(b)(3) ("A statement which was at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability, or to render invalid a claim by the declarant against another, that a reasonable person in the declarant's position would...A statement qualifies as a statement against interest for purposes of the hearsay exception for statements against interest only if the statement, at the time the declarant made it, was so contrary to the declarant's interest that a reasonable person in the declarant's position would not have made if the declarant had believed the statement to be untrue.

United States v. Abou-Saada, 785 F.2d 1, 8 (1st Cir. 1986) (holding that the pointing constituted hearsay evidence because it was a conduct intended as an assertion and it would not be admissible against defendant as a....A "statement" for purposes of the hearsay prohibition against the admission of hearsay statements is (1) an oral or written assertion or (2) nonverbal conduct of a person, if it is intended by the person as an assertion.

Crane v. Crest Tankers, Inc., 47 F.3d 292, 296 (8th Cir. 1995) (holding, in plaintiff seaman's action against defendant employer for damages, that the trial court erroneously admitted into evidence the exhibit [which was....There is a hearsay exception for market quotations, directories, or similar published compilations that are generally used and relied upon either by the public or by members of particular occupations.