speak for myself

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to express what you think or want yourself, rather than sb else doing it for you

   Please get off my porch. I can speak for myself.

In the movies · 6

• Please get off my porch. I can speak for myself.Spotlight2015
• she can speak for herself.Knives Out2019
• I speak for myself.The Royal Tenenbaums2001
• Speaking for myself, I'd welcome the company.Shadowlands1993
• Oh speaking for myself Mr. Maraczek, I wouldn't mind staying a little longer.She Loves Me2016
• and speak to Sylvia myself.An American Crime2007
• Oh. I mean, sometimes I speak of myself in the third person.The Tuxedo2002
• Well, I can't speak for the rest of the village, but speaking for myself, since about 1968.Pride2014

Learn it in full scenes

• Spotlight2015
  • Baron Meets Robinson for a Drink
  • Marty Baron's First News Meeting
  • Lawyers Break Down the Geoghan Case
• Knives Out2019
  • Police Question the Thrombeys
  • Blanc Introduces Himself to the Family
  • The Family Recounts Party Night
• An American Crime2007
  • Sylvia Meets Friends at Church
  • Paula Brags About Her Married Boyfriend
  • Gertrude Takes In the Likens Girls

From the same entry

• be on speaking terms
• generally, broadly, roughly, relatively, speaking
• no… to speak of
• so to speak
• speak for itself
• speak for yourself
• speaking as
• speak your mind
• speak out of turn
• speak volumes
• speak well of
• actions speak louder than words