I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive.

Rivers frames aliveness as motion rather than comfort: what matters is that life is eventful, not that it is pleasant. The line reflects a performer’s temperament—someone who thrives on stimulus, risk, and the raw material of experience, even when it hurts. By collapsing the distinction between “good” and “bad” into the single category of “things happening,” she suggests that adversity can be as vitalizing and meaningful as success, because both confirm engagement with the world. The quote also carries a comic’s pragmatic stoicism: if you can stay present through upheaval, you can keep living—and keep finding material, perspective, and resilience.